Your Coding Agent Wastes SO MANY Tokens Just Finding Code - Here's the Fix
Sep 28, 2026Cole Medin
Summary
This post introduces Sonar Vortex, a system that integrates with SonarQube Cloud to directly answer the question of which code matters for a given change, thereby reducing token spend for AI coding agents by measuring median savings between 6 and 34%. This directly addresses the problem of AI coding agents wasting tokens on code search.
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