Where does Claude's cost really go? Running build tools may quietly add up
IgorBrigadir · x · 2026-11-12
Igor Brigadir muses that a notable chunk of Claude's "cost" may not come from tokens or inference at all, but from boring compute spent running menial tasks like build tools that the agent likes to execute — and all of that adds up.
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