My cost per task was fine in the demo and insane in production
In testing each run cost me a few cents. In production the same agent averaged way more because real inputs are messy, it retried on ambiguous tool errors, and it re-read the same context on every step. Nobody warns you that a reasoning loop with no step budget will happily burn tokens chasing a go…
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- 2026-10-29 13:15 · r/AI_Agents
My cost per task was fine in the demo and insane in production