Most agent loops still pay LLM prices for if-statements
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A support ticket needs a route. A tool call needs a risk label. A request needs a model tier. Those are bounded judgments, not writing tasks. If you ask a chat model for JSON, parse it, and call that automation, you are still recovering a decision from generated text. For those paths you want typed…
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- 2026-09-23 08:32 · DEV Community — AI
Most agent loops still pay LLM prices for if-statements