Your AI Coding Agent Isn't Thinking—It's Re-Reading: Cut Your Token Bill by 70% in 60 Seconds with Headroom
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Run a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or Aider for an hour and inspect what actually gets sent to the LLM API. You will find 10,000-line CI failure logs dumped in full, the exact same source file printed three times because three different tools touched it, and 200-line JSON blobs fro…
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Your AI Coding Agent Isn't Thinking—It's Re-Reading: Cut Your Token Bill by 70% in 60 Seconds with Headroom