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Are Frontend Developers Wasting Tokens? 5 Ways to Cut AI Coding Costs
Community description: When you have an AI agent open all day, it's really easy to burn through a lot of tokens quickly. And...
Dev.to | Oct 8, 2026 | Erik Hanchett
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I'm using Kiro in my examples, but you can use whatever you'd like. Use a cheaper model for simple tasks This one's a little obvious, but you shouldn't use the same frontier model for everything. Put token rules in your steering file Steering files are markdown files in . kiro/steering/ that Kiro loads as persistent context, so you don't have to repeat yourself every session.
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