One script call replaced 26 tool calls and cut cost from $2.44 to $0.02
please-dont-deploy · reddit · 2026-07-22
Measured in production, replacing 26 raw tool calls with one script call cut costs from $2.44 to $0.02.
- 26 calls → 1 script call
- 126x fewer characters
- 99.2% lower measured cost
- 25,811 characters measured in the test
More from coding & agent
- Alex Townsend posts 200 open problems in numerical linear algebra for humans and AI agents — IgorCarron · 2026-09-11
- Kimi K2.8 Preview rolls out: near-K3 coding performance, 1M context for all tiers — teortaxesTex · 2026-09-11
- Looking for a classifier of software engineering task shapes to pick models per task — StewartalsopIII · 2026-09-11
- Steal this idea: prompt-to-hardware where agents assemble custom devices — paraschopra · 2026-09-11
- Model Is the Least Interesting Part: A Guide to Six Core AI Architectures from RAG to Multi-Agent — goyalshaliniuk · 2026-09-11
- Non-coder builds layered memory architecture: 20k tokens tracks a year of agent conversations — matteoianni · 2026-09-11