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Tokens Are Not the Metric

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When developers start using AI seriously, one metric appears almost immediately: token usage . How many tokens did this agent consume? How much did this coding session cost? Can we reduce the context window? Can we use a cheaper model? Those are reasonable questions. But they can also lead us towar…

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  1. 2026-10-06 15:55 · DEV Community — AI
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