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by diseasedyak 21 days ago
Not saying this is what you did, but I found out the hard way that keeping a context window open for a long time burns tokens like crazy. I had a Hermes session using DeepSeek v4 Pro via Ollama, and ate half my weekly token allotment in a couple hours, just by piling on more and more work inside the same prompt, instead of exiting out and starting a new session (or using the Hermes command to start a new session without exiting).