Why Code Search Is Draining Your AI Agent's Token Budget
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The Token Tax Nobody Talks About Every time a coding agent starts a task, it faces a navigation problem before it faces a coding problem. It has to find the relevant code first — and that search process is quietly consuming a significant portion of your AI compute budget before a single line gets w…
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- 2026-09-03 14:32 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Why Code Search Is Draining Your AI Agent's Token Budget