The cheapest tokens you'll ever buy are the ones you already cached
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Most agents throw a chunk of them away every single turn, and never see it happen. There are two levers on an AI coding bill. The big one is routing: send the easy work to a cheaper model, keep the frontier model for the hard slice, and measure whether the cheap one was actually good enough. That's…
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- 2026-09-22 11:47 · DEV Community — AI
The cheapest tokens you'll ever buy are the ones you already cached