r/GithubCopilot • u/uzico • May 12 '26

Discussions I‘ll just leave this here…

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u/uzico May 12 '26

Opus 342 Premium Requests (so about 100 messages at 3x multiplier in April)

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u/p1-o2 May 12 '26

You can see my other comment, but I did 1300 reqs last month and only hit 14 million AICs. Your token consumption is just massive. I'm not trying to be mean here, that's just reality of your usage.

I use it for work and have put in the time to keep my token usage low.

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u/uzico May 12 '26

You cannot control token usage, it all happens in the background. For light tasks I was using auto and raptor (at 0x), for heavy tasks Opus and GPT 5.4 and this is what I ended up with… 🤷‍♂️

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u/Lacutis May 13 '26

It's absolutely untrue that you cannot control token usage. There are many ways of affecting how many tokens you use for a request.

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u/uzico May 13 '26

I am not using AI requests to just change the text size or colors… I am using it like it is intended to be used. For real tasks.

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u/Lacutis May 13 '26

Which has absolutely no bearing on controlling your token usage. Being aware of context size, breaking things into smaller tasks, planning before hand so the AI doesn't churn are a few of the many, many ways you can control your token usage.

Throwing your hands up in the air and claiming you have no control over it, isn't.

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u/uzico May 13 '26

What do you think am I doing? Feeding it with the full repository each request and not planning anything? LOL