Hmm hmm hmm – counted in 1017

Session total: 18,646 'hmm' in 1,723,217 chars of reasoning across 158 turns. That is 10.8 per 1k chars. IOW, over 1% of all reasoning text is the token. The last reasoning block: 136 in 12,814 chars: 10.6 per 1k. At ~1.5 tokens per 'hmm' plus the separator, 18,646 occurrences ≈ 30-50k tokens of pure filler across the session.