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I traced the agentic calls. Here's where the token consumption comes from

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I expected an agentic coding assistant to use more tokens than a simpler tool. I didn't expect the difference to be this large. For the exact same simple coding task, I measured: Pi Aider LLM calls 3 1 JSON exchanged ~760 KB ~100 KB The task was very simple: a small PyQt project, two files, and a s…

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  1. 2026-09-16 08:12 · DEV Community — AI
    I traced the agentic calls. Here's where the token consumption comes from

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