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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: 3 LLM calls, ~760 KB JSON exchanged Aider: 1 LLM calls, ~100 KB JSON exchanged The task was very simple: a small PyQ…

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  1. 2026-09-16 13:25 · r/ChatGPTCoding
    I traced the agentic calls. Here's where the token consumption comes from

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