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2026-06-15
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Over-editing is a token tax: GPT-5.4 ships 6.5x more diff per fix than Claude Opus 4.6, and your bill notices
A developer found that GPT-5.4 produces 6.5x more output tokens per code fix than Claude Opus 4.6, with no improvement in correctness. The over-editing tax costs an extra $1,650 per month for a 50-eng…