Your Agent Isn't Expensive Because of Your Plan — It's Expensive Because It's Wasting Tokens

Practitioners are converging on a diagnosis: runaway agent costs come from waste and silent retry loops, not from undersized subscriptions.

A pair of practitioner threads this weekend pushed back on the reflexive assumption that high agent costs mean you need a bigger plan. @xiaochenwang123 argued the real culprit is waste: "Audit first. Stop feeding it long chats." The point is that most agent cost is unexamined — teams scale their subscription before they ever look at where the tokens are going.

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