Broadcast vs targeted messaging: Coordination overhead tradeoff you're not measuring - Token cost analysis of communication topologies.
I once watched a five-agent conversation burn $150 in three rounds. The quality was fine — the agents produced a genuine, constraint-valid plan. The bill was not. Each agent was reading the full prior conversation on every turn, so every round re-ingested every earlier round, and the cost curve loo…
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- 2026-11-13 15:12 · DEV Community — AI
Broadcast vs targeted messaging: Coordination overhead tradeoff you're not measuring - Token cost analysis of communication topologies.