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- 1AI agents consume five times more tokens than humans▼AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x — agents are mostly rereading what they've already seen, skyrocketing KV cache demand threatens already-worsening RAM shortages
Industry reporting says AI agents now use roughly five times more tokens than human users, a figure projected to reach ten times. Much of that consumption comes from agents rereading content they have already processed, driving explosive growth in cached prompts. The resulting surge in KV cache demand is straining memory supplies, compounding an already worsening RAM shortage across the tech sector.
Repos
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