The expensive part of an agent is often not the model. It is the pointless loop
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I've seen agent flows where the same page gets searched three times, the same file is summarized twice, and one agent asks another agent to verify something that was already deterministic. That kind of waste is easy to hide when each call is cheap. At scale it becomes the product. Before swapping t…
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- 2026-08-31 16:20 · r/AI_Agents
The expensive part of an agent is often not the model. It is the pointless loop