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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-28T14:16:48.000Z",
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  "textContent": "  1. gpt-5 models are reasoning models. You pay for their internal thinking as output.\n  2. gpt-5-nano thinks excessively long for poor results. Better to just use mini.\n  3. use the API parameter “reasoning_effort”, and set it to “low”. That will indicate to the model how much to think (the parameter for Chat Completions).\n  4. Or simply use gpt-4.1, which goes right to producing output without first deliberating about and valuing which “code” to generate. Use a “top_p”: 0.01 if you want consistent answers instead of random ones.\n\n",
  "title": "Why are completion tokens so high?"
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