The Hidden Cost of AI Coding Agents: Every Tool Is Fetching the Same Data

Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Aider, Continue, Windsurf. Before any of them suggests npm install express, they hit the npm registry. Before they suggest pip install django, they hit PyPI. Before they warn about vulnerabilities, they hit OSV. Millions of agents. The same queries. Over and over. Something is wrong with this picture. The Math of Waste Let's do some napkin math. Claude Code alone has tens of thousands of daily active users. Cursor has a million. Copilot has 15 million...