AI Agents Waste 13,000 Tokens Before Saying 'Hello'

Common AI agent architectures consume thousands of tokens on context initialization, system loading, and prep before first user response.

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Inefficiency increases costs and latency without direct user value.

Optimizing agent startup chain can halve token costs and speed up first interaction.

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Opportunité de réduction de coûts: -50% des tokens de démarrage agent via optimisation

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