Why Coding Agents Are Getting More Expensive (And How To Fix It) (opens in new tab)

Cross-posted from carrick.tools. Coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor now have context windows that support up to a million tokens. While larger contexts are useful, they are also the reason your API costs are increasing and you are hitting usage limits faster than before. If your $20 Pro subscription feels like it covers less ground lately, or you are running into rate limits early in the day, it comes down to how these tools manage context under the hood. Why prompt caching matters so ...