Tracking one tennis ball with GPT-6 burns 7.87M tokens

Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-07

LearnOpenCV ran a tennis-ball tracking demo with GPT-6 Astra Ultra: ball annotation via 3 parallel agents took 8m35s and 17,611 tokens; the full workflow took 11m49s and 30,481 tokens, consuming 7.87M total tokens (313,914 uncached + 7.5M cached) mostly reused across frame-inspection calls. Scobleizer quips 2030 = 200 billion cat trackers.

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