I imagine it is 25k tokens not dollars

I think the system prompt is bigger than that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927724 seems to say dollars? Although yes the phrasing could be clearer in the post

I think it was worded badly

it was 25k WORTH of API billed tokens, but only actually 1 claude max 5x plan, so it was more like 100 dollars

Well that's a lot of money. Cheap considering what that may have cost a few years ago I suppose.

You can't do anything for 25k tokens; I've spent 100m today and the day isn't out yet.

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That's standard token usage for /init

25k tokens is a few turns