Counting AI Agent Tokens Misses What Actually Ships
AI agents do more than answer once. They plan, write code, run tests and repeat the process to fix errors. One agent task can use 10 to 50 times more tokens than a basic chat prompt. The article argues that teams should measure real results, not just token counts.
Quick glossarytokens, AI agent
- tokens
- A small piece of text, such as part of a word, that an AI system processes and is often charged for.
- AI agent
- A program that carries out multi-step tasks on its own, such as planning, writing code and checking its work.
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