Tokens, Context, and Why Small AI Tasks Aren't Cheap (opens in new tab)

I recently used Cursor Agent Mode with Auto Mode enabled to do something simple: recommend a font pairing and update two files in my project. An index.html and an index.css. That's it! The agent added a Google Fonts tag, a Gstatic with a crossorigin within it, and shuffled a few CSS variables as well as styling rules for the body tag and H tags. It cost 1% of my monthly usage budget. At first that felt wrong. Two files. A handful of lines. One percent? But once I understood what...