Where AI agent sessions waste tokens: six levers and 30 fixes
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-10-11
A new deep-dive article breaks down where AI agent sessions burn tokens and how to stop it. Aimed at users hitting plan limits—one engineer's Max plan runs dry by mid-afternoon, another saw their API bill double after adding a single MCP server—it distills the drivers of per-session token consumption into six levers and offers 30 concrete ways to improve.
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