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Nobody talks about where coding agent money actually goes. It's not the code. Writing code is a small part of the bill. The rest is the agent: Reading files it didn't need. Deliberating over tiny choices. Retrying things that were never going to work. Fix the waste, not the... show more
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@cyrilXBT I hit this wall too. Half the time wasted on setup and dependency issues. Reuse configs where you can.

Admire it

The waste isn't reading extra files, it's ambiguity. Agents thrash because the task spec was vague, and the router just decides easy vs hard, not clear vs underspecified. Where does routing stop being cheaper than writing a tighter prompt?

THE RETRYINGGG

the retry loop is the real bill, so a hard cap on attempts per task would save more than any cheaper model 👀

Part of mine was spent before any work started. Each session loaded about 25,500 tokens of rules, memory and skill descriptions before its first tool call. I cut that to a rule card with a measured ceiling, and everything else now loads only when a task needs it.

the agent reading files it never needed is where my money goes too

Maintaining your agent does take a few iterations and it's never truly done. And being efficient takes time, because features are changing constantly.

you raise a valid point about inefficiencies in coding agents; addressing waste could lead to better outcomes

Same pattern with Claude Code. A lot of the bill is the agent re-exploring the repo every session. A short CLAUDE.md with the project map and the commands to run cuts most of that wandering.
