#cost-optimization
2 posts tagged with "cost-optimization".
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The Trajectory Became the Cost Center
• 5 min readA wave of mid-2026 research stopped trying to make the model cheaper and started compressing the agent's own trajectory — at the observation, action, and skill level.
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Cost-Optimized Agent Architectures: Cutting Spend 10x Without Losing Quality
• 9 min readCaching, routing, distillation, and per-task model selection. The four moves that take a $0.40/task agent to $0.04/task without anyone noticing the difference.
