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Your agent's cost problem isn't the model. It's the steps you never measured.
Community description: A few weeks back I watched an agentic pipeline burn a month of budget in three days. The instinct...
Dev.to | Sep 22, 2026 | TokenLat
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A classification step that a small model handles fine? You log, for every call: step id, tool, model, input/output tokens, latency, retry count. If you can't attribute per step, the fix was never a cheaper model.
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