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The hidden cost: tokens burned on pixels
Every pixel your agent "sees" has a price tag on it.
Before an agent can do anything useful — before it fills a form, clicks a button, or fetches a record — it has to render the page, parse the DOM, and describe every button, banner, and dropdown to itself in tokens. A trivial task burns thousands of tokens before a single productive step happens.
And it's not a one-time cost. Every retry re-reads the same page. Every scroll, every hover, every misfire pays the same toll again.
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