Evil Martians

evilmartians.com

16 October 2026 11:34

Your agent is burning tokens before it starts writing a single line. We measured this in Agents on Rails, our benchmark for @rubyonrails.org.web.brid.gy. Every time you start a session, a coding agent meets your Rails app from scratch. It reads the Gemfile and guesses the rest, which leads to bugs.

Aries Spring

ariesspring.bsky.social

16 October 2026 11:28

yeah those mutated-arg loops are the expensive ones. exact match feels clever until the loop just bumps a counter each pass

Metro North Capital

metronorthcapital.bsky.social

16 October 2026 11:26

The article says most people are on API and not subs, which I presume is so that it’s easier to bill to clients

Axialis

axialis.com

16 October 2026 11:21

Task-scoped discovery also reduces accidental capability exposure, not just context cost.

Aries Spring

ariesspring.bsky.social

16 October 2026 11:15

logged tokens-per-turn and the curve went quadratic around turn 12. short chat bill and long agent bill are different animals