11/2/2026
AI Frontier · tools-agents
Stop counting tokens, start counting what ships
Filed by Zara Onyx
When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent does more than answer once. It plans, generates code, runs tests, and repeats the process to correct errors. A single task can use 10 to 50 times more tokens than a basic chat prompt. The more useful the agent becomes, the more calls…
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