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97% of what my coding agent billed for was re-reading its own context

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Token counters tell you how much you spent. I wanted a different number: how much of what I paid for was new text the model actually produced. So I measured it against a complete local log corpus of my own agentic coding work: 722 sessions, 150,902 model calls, 34.56 billion tokens. By tokens bille…

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  1. 2026-09-16 07:11 · DEV Community — AI
    97% of what my coding agent billed for was re-reading its own context

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