
Your AI Coding Agent Reads 166 Tokens for Every 1 It Writes. Here's Why That's a Problem.
For every 1 token your AI writes, it reads 166. That 165:1 ratio explains why AI coding is expensive, slow, and hitting limits constantly. Here's the data.
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For every 1 token your AI writes, it reads 166. That 165:1 ratio explains why AI coding is expensive, slow, and hitting limits constantly. Here's the data.

A developer tracked every token Claude Code consumed for a month. The result: 99.4% were input tokens. For every 1 token written, 166 were consumed reading. Here's what that means for your bill.