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Why Your Coding Agents Burn Tokens in the Dark

We handed our terminals over to autonomous coding agents, only to discover our token bills were compounding in silence. Here is how I built Thermal to track 14 agent harnesses with local SQLite mmap, sub-10ms delta caching, and a Bubble Tea TUI.

September 26, 2026 ยท 12 min read

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