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I built a token killer for AI agents. Here's what it didn't kill.

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🔪 I built a token killer for AI agents. Here's what it didn't kill. When an agent reads a web page, it pays for the whole page. On GitHub's page for psf/requests, that's 123,176 tokens. Only 519 of them are the README. 🤯 The rest is navigation menus, sign-in banners, file lists and scripts. leant…

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  1. 2026-10-26 17:41 · DEV Community — AI
    I built a token killer for AI agents. Here's what it didn't kill.

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