Your agent's cost problem isn't the model. It's the steps you never measured.
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A few weeks back I watched an agentic pipeline burn a month of budget in three days. The instinct everyone reached for was the obvious one: "the frontier model is too expensive, switch to a smaller one." That's the wrong diagnosis, and it's worth writing down why. When we finally tagged every token…
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- 2026-09-22 02:47 · DEV Community — AI
Your agent's cost problem isn't the model. It's the steps you never measured.