Your AI Agent Wastes 87% of Its Tokens Just...

Or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Trigram You know that feeling when you ask an AI agent to fix a simple bug, and it spends 45 seconds reading your entire codebase before changing 3 lines? I do. I watched it happen. Repeatedly. So I decided to count exactly how bad it was. Turns out, 60-80% of the tokens your AI agent consumes go to navigation -- searching for code, reading files, searching again, reading more files. Not reasoning. Not writing code. Just finding things. It's lik