'One Wikipedia Page Costs Your AI Agent 68,000 Tokens'

Hacker News·medium signal

A Hacker News post (14 points, 8 comments) quantifies how expensive naive full-page context injection is for agents — a single Wikipedia page consuming ~68,000 tokens — making the case for aggressive retrieval and summarization over dumping raw pages. A practical context-engineering data point as agents rack up token costs on web reads.