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Cutting Agent Token Costs Without Breaking Task Quality

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I treat an agent run as the unit of cost, not an individual model request. A chatbot may make one call per user message; an agent can make 10, 20, or more before finishing. Every call may reprocess instructions, history, tool results, and intermediate state. Retries, reasoning, and workers add to t…

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  1. 2026-09-17 14:09 · DEV Community — AI
    Cutting Agent Token Costs Without Breaking Task Quality

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