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Ask HN: If you're burning tokens at scale, what are you using them for?

2•simonw•40m ago
I know lots of people use tokens to run coding agents, but I'm interested in hearing from people who are burning large amounts of tokens on automated tasks that aren't driving some kind of agent.

Do you have processes set up that are e.g. processing documents, audio, or video files? Particularly interested in hearing from people doing this in a business context.

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dxbhack•32m ago
We process a lot of business documents at scale, invoices, sales orders, insurance documents and so on. Our token usage easily go beyond 50 to 100 million tokens per day.

We use a routing approach where simpler tasks go to smaller, cheaper models and more complex tasks go to frontier models. We are also working on having our own model for some of these workloads.

Document processing is probably one of our biggest agent use cases for tokens at this scale.

toomuchtodo•23m ago
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