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Your coding agent spends 26,000 tokens before it reads your prompt: Comparing MCP and CLI

calendar_today August 28, 2026 person Markus Kohler domain realtime

AI adoption for coding has reached an all-time high, but there’s a bottleneck nobody budgeted for. Explore what MCP servers, CLIs, and skill files actually cost you before an agent does any work, and a benchmarking measure using tooling from Blocks.ai (powered by PubNub).

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