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Coding Agents Increase Energy And Token Costs
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Relevance ScoreSimon P. Couch reports that AI coding agents such as Claude Code consume far more tokens and compute than typical consumer LLM prompts. He estimates his daily usage equals about 4,400 typical LLM queries, costing roughly $15–$20 in API token spend and using energy comparable to running a dishwasher once or a refrigerator per day. This highlights higher operational costs and resource use for coding agents.
