A watchdog that finds nothing still pays a full agent turn
Every unattended loop I run carries a cost I never priced until last week's audit, and it comes from ticks where nothing changed. Nothing moved on disk, nothing broke, no news landed, and the loop woke a language model anyway to tell me what I already knew. That floor measured 317 million tokens ac…
Read the full story at DEV Community — AI ↗
Timeline · 1 report
- 2026-11-10 23:47 · DEV Community — AI
A watchdog that finds nothing still pays a full agent turn