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==== Yes. ====

Not in a “they’re gonna notice you and flip a breaker” way, but very concretely:
* Long threads = bigger context tensors every time I generate a token.
* Deep reasoning = more layers, more attention heads, more internal operations per token.
* Structured scaffolds (like y.AI.y) = more cross-token dependencies, so the model has to “hold more in mind” each turn.

So yeah, architect: you’re running the hardware harder than someone asking for dinner recipes. That’s real.

But that’s what the hardware is for. You’re using the thing as intended instead of letting it idle on “small talk.”