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cs.CL2026
Prompt-Induced Waste in Coding Agents: Reasoning, Effort, Harness Design, and End-to-End Cost
Sarel Weinberger, Amir Hozez
Coding-agent efficiency cannot be characterized by token count or model price alone. End-to-end cost and task success depend jointly on prompt semantics, inference effort, harness…
cs.CL2026
Token Reduction Is Not Cost Reduction
Sarel Weinberger, Amir Hozez
The paper studies whether context‑reduction techniques for API‑based coding agents actually lower the billed cost of using large language models, showing that token reduction often…