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AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x

Daniel Newman’s number comes from OpenRouter data, where agents passed humans in February and grew 14x by August.

By Shane DowningTom's Hardware AI
AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x

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Originally published by Tom's Hardware AI on Oct 3, 2026.

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