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My AI coding agents read 1.2 billion tokens in 32 sessions. Most of it was text they'd already seen.

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I asked my coding agents a simple question: how much did you actually read while we built this project? The answer: about 1.2 billion tokens , across 32 work sessions in Claude Code and Codex. A token is roughly ¾ of a word, so that's around 900 million words. About 10,000 novels. For one side proj…

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  1. 2026-10-23 02:23 · DEV Community — AI
    My AI coding agents read 1.2 billion tokens in 32 sessions. Most of it was text they'd already seen.

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