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We Measured 1,500 Lines of Terminal Bloat Burning $0.20 Per Prompt in Cursor. Here's How We Stripped 97% of It in 2.5ms

If you are using Cursor, Claude Code, Aider, Windsurf, or Codex , you are likely hemorrhaging tokens—and money—every time your agent touches the command line. We recently profiled an autonomous agent workflow during a routine feature iteration. Over 45 minutes, the agent invoked test suites and bui…

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  1. 2026-11-03 19:00 · DEV Community — AI
    We Measured 1,500 Lines of Terminal Bloat Burning $0.20 Per Prompt in Cursor. Here's How We Stripped 97% of It in 2.5ms

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