6 billion tokens later: dev wakes up to find AI agent ran all night
danshipper · x · 2026-09-08
- danshipper shared a screenshot checking what Astra had been up to overnight, revealing 6 billion tokens consumed—a viral moment about the real token burn of long-running autonomous coding agents.
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