Your Agent Is Paying an LLM to Run a For-Loop: Why Most Agent Harnesses Route Every Tool Call Through Inference
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Most agent frameworks make the LLM the bus between every tool call. Ask an agent to read every Markdown file and extract headings, and the default execution path looks like this: one inference to find the files, another to read file A, another to read file B, another to filter, another to aggregate…
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- 2026-10-09 20:08 · DEV Community — AI
Your Agent Is Paying an LLM to Run a For-Loop: Why Most Agent Harnesses Route Every Tool Call Through Inference