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How I Cut GPT-6 Astra Usage by ~95% Without Losing Quality

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The first week Astra came out, the usage was incredibly efficient. I ran something like 500M tokens and never got close to the weekly limit on the 20x plan. Then that stopped. I started hitting the ceiling constantly, and burned through four resets to cover the next 500M tokens. Nothing about my wo…

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    How I Cut GPT-6 Astra Usage by ~95% Without Losing Quality

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