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The hidden cost: tokens burned on pixels

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Every pixel your agent "sees" has a price tag on it. Before an agent can do anything useful — before it fills a form, clicks a button, or fetches a record — it has to render the page, parse the DOM, and describe every button, banner, and dropdown to itself in tokens. A trivial task burns thousands…

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  1. 2026-09-26 03:19 · DEV Community — AI
    The hidden cost: tokens burned on pixels

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