Posts tagged "input vs output tokens"

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.

I Tracked 100 Million Tokens of Claude Code Usage. 99.4% Were Wasted on Reading.

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.