The Token Ledger: Catching Cost Drift in AI-Generated Patches
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A team that runs the same AI-assisted patch task every week usually notices the problem only when a bill arrives. The prompt file has not changed, the repository has not grown, and the generated diff looks smaller than last month, yet the token count has drifted upward across five consecutive runs.…
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- 2026-09-01 12:53 · DEV Community — AI
The Token Ledger: Catching Cost Drift in AI-Generated Patches