https://patrickdahlke.com/tags/token-cost/Recent content in Token Cost on Patrick DahlkeHugoen-usWed, 15 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200https://patrickdahlke.com/posts/six-times-tax/Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200https://patrickdahlke.com/posts/six-times-tax/Your AI agents are productive. They write code, update specs, run tests. The tokens flow, the commits land, and everything looks fine — until someone asks a simple question: “Did we update everything that needed updating?” Nobody can answer it. That’s the problem. A benchmark worth reading Erwin Roth from Audi ran a benchmark. Five coordination architectures for Claude Code. Same codebase, same scenario, four parallel agents. The task: propagate a single requirement change — brake response time from 100ms to 50ms — across 15 interconnected artifacts in an ISO 26262 safety-critical project.