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Are AI Companies Deliberately Teaching Us to Spend More Tokens?

Community description: Anthropic published a guide last month, Building agents: When to fold subagents into your main agent...

Dev.to | Nov 4, 2026 | Sandro Garcia

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The multi-agent era taught us to build systems where every routing decision, every handoff, every schema translation was a full model run. But the paradigm is untouched: coordination happens inside a context window, and everything inside a context window is billable. But the paradigm is untouched: coordination happens inside a context window, and everything inside a context window is billable.

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