Why your agent gets slower and pricier with every tool call
Okay so here's something that bugged me for a while. You build an agent. Step 1 feels snappy. By step 15, after a few tool calls and a pile of JSON results, it's noticeably slower, and the bill is climbing in a way that doesn't feel linear. I knew the vague answer ("the context is longer"). I didn'…
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- 2026-10-20 17:09 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Why your agent gets slower and pricier with every tool call