AI coding
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You're Probably Over-Counting Your AI Agent's Context Cost
Access count × file size over-counts an AI agent's duplicate-load token cost by ~13×. The honest unit is ingested tokens, measured from session transcripts.
Why "Hello" Costs Thousands of Tokens
A one-word prompt to an AI coding agent can hide thousands of tokens: repository exploration, tool output, build logs, and accumulated session state.
Ponytail Is Asking the Right Question
Ponytail cut the code an AI wrote by half, but the bill by only a fifth. That gap — and the cost that lands months later — is the part worth talking about.