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Quick Win Token Exhaustion: What Three AI Coding Agents Taught Me in a Single Week

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What if running out of tokens isn’t a tech failure, but a sign your workflow is broken? After a week with three AI coding agents, I discovered how my own habits drained my token budget and limited what I could build. This post shows why rethinking your approach, not just your tools, can unlock real progress.

Lesson Learned The New Waste in AI Engineering: When Assumptions Age Faster Than Code

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In AI engineering, knowledge decays faster than code. I spent a morning building a custom MLX-LM integration only to find Ollama had already shipped the solution. Here is why the only defensible moat is a workflow that prioritizes validation over momentum.