Shipped blog post demonstrating why gate removal was correct — 3.5M tokens

Shipped blog post demonstrating why gate removal was correct

andrewchemis.dev

MARATHON

First session with opus-5-5[1m]

First build using this model

3.5Mtokens

29prompts

53:58:14time

164lines

Claude Codeclaude-opus-5-5[1m]Markdown$45.02

balanced mix

Published post showing most gate checks are ineffective and removal was justified.

Tokens / prompt120.3k

Cost / line$0.275

Cache hit97%

Burn rate$0.83/hr

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Building 36%Verifying 31%Thinking 1%Delegating 32%