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Where do all the tokens go in AI agent sessions?

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I've been looking at where the tokens actually go during long-running agent sessions. A lot of the spend goes into resent context, tool results and reasoning, while only a small part becomes the final output. What surprised me was how many "cost optimizations" just move the cost somewhere else. Cut…

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  1. 2026-08-23 05:16 · r/AI_Agents
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