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The Re-Read Tax: A One-Hour Spike for Where Your Agent Tokens Actually Go

Your agent budget rarely dies on one giant file. It dies on the same file, read ten times. That is the failure mode worth spiking. Before you wire any free tier into CI, spend one hour testing a single hypothesis about redundant context. This is a design for that hour. The code below is illustrativ…

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  1. 2026-11-09 21:24 · DEV Community — AI
    The Re-Read Tax: A One-Hour Spike for Where Your Agent Tokens Actually Go

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