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Every Extra Hop Buys Another Queue Ticket

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Free tokens do not make a multi-hop agent cheap. They make the invoice quiet while the wall clock gets loud. If your job fans out into tool calls, retrievals, or “one more check” loops, each hop is a fresh ticket in whoever is scheduling the model. The money line can stay at zero. The deadline stil…

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  1. 2026-09-07 14:13 · DEV Community — AI
    Every Extra Hop Buys Another Queue Ticket

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