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My colleague read a post that you can burn 55,000 tokens before your agent ever touches your task. He put it to the test, and found the number to be lower - 26,000 tokens - but still an astonishing amount. It prompted the question: would CLI or MCP matter more here in reducing that burn? Here's what he found.

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