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We kept arguing about GPT vs Claude and missed the 2x long-context cost blowing up our agent runs

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A thing finally clicked for me while debugging an agent trace: we were spending way too much time arguing about model choice, and not enough time looking at the giant pile of context getting replayed on every step. Not user intent. Not fresh instructions. Just baggage. Old tool output. Debug blobs.…

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  1. 2026-09-19 14:09 · DEV Community — AI
    We kept arguing about GPT vs Claude and missed the 2x long-context cost blowing up our agent runs

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