How to Troubleshoot When AI Workflow Costs Double
Impressive-Iron5216 · reddit · 2026-07-06
After speaking with multiple teams building AI products, the author identified a common pattern: while cost spikes are easily noticed, finding the root cause is much harder. Common triggers include retries after failures, redundant tool calls, long-running workflows, and context bloat across multi-step processes. Most teams sift through logs or traces to reconstruct events. The author asks teams running agentic or multi-step AI workflows in production: if an AI workflow's cost suddenly doubles, what is your troubleshooting process?
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