Surgical Subgraphs: How We Cut Coding-Agent Token Costs by 95%
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Every coding agent has the same expensive habit: when it needs context, it grabs too much of it. A full-file dump here, a 50-chunk RAG retrieval there — and suddenly a simple "trace this API call" task burns 12,000+ tokens before the model writes a single line of code. At Claude 3.5 Sonnet pricing…
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- 2026-09-29 09:45 · DEV Community — AI
Surgical Subgraphs: How We Cut Coding-Agent Token Costs by 95%