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Your AI agent wastes 13,000 tokens before saying "hello"

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10 May
Your MCP server eats 55,000 tokens before your agent says a word -- I measured the real cost

<h2> The invisible bill </h2> <p>I was debugging why my Claude Code sessions felt sluggish after connecting a few MCP servers. Token usage was through the roof -- but I hadn't

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Fix Your Prompt Structure Before You Touch Your Infrastructure

<h1> Fix Your Prompt Structure Before You Touch Your Infrastructure </h1> <p>Most engineering teams treat LLM inference costs as an infrastructure problem. They evaluate model

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4 Oct
Qwen3.8 27B | 1 x R9700: 262K context, half a million tokens of reusable cache, ~180 tok/s. And yes, let's talk about the "3-bit" :)

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wxfdt9/qwen38_27b_1_x_r9700_262k_context_half_a_million/"> <img alt="Qwen3.8 27B | 1 x R9700: 262K context,

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17 Sept
Does your WebMCP actually save time and tokens? Run an ON/OFF experiment

<p>I added a WebMCP benchmark to <a href="https://github.com/jo32/DeepDeck" rel="noopener noreferrer">DeepDeck</a>, my MIT-licensed macOS desktop project built on DeepSeek

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22 Apr
Playwright MCP burns 114k tokens for one workflow. Here's why, and what to do about it.

<p>A recent r/ClaudeAI post measured a single Playwright MCP workflow at <strong>114,000 tokens</strong>. Not a complex task — a 7-step navigation + form submission that ran in

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