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Featured image for article: I Tracked 100 Million Tokens of Claude Code Usage. 99.4% Were Wasted on Reading.
Mar 12, 2026 Claude Code token usage AI coding cost token waste input vs output tokens Claude Code expensive AI coding agent efficiency

I Tracked 100 Million Tokens of Claude Code Usage. 99.4% Were Wasted on Reading.

A developer tracked every token Claude Code consumed for a month. The result: 99.4% were input tokens. For every 1 token written, 166 were consumed reading. Here's what that means for your bill.