Hacker News: intellirimhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=intellirimHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 04 May 2026 01:12:40 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by intellirim in "Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve"]]>In my experience building agent pipelines, the real cost explosion happens at tool call chains - each hop multiplies tokens in ways that are hard to anticipate . Adding structured logging per step helped me identify and cut the worst offenders.

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