How to cut your AI agent's input tokens: what worked, what failed, and a bench to measure yours
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Before every single thought, our BI agent re-read 17,000 tokens of instructions and tool manuals. Then the whole conversation. Then every table it had pulled since the first question. In our offline replay of a three-question conversation, ten model calls consumed 286,522 input tokens before optimi…
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- 2026-10-28 14:40 · DEV Community — AI
How to cut your AI agent's input tokens: what worked, what failed, and a bench to measure yours