GPT-5.6 turns a simple agent cost tracker into a bank-grade ledger
boringmarketer · x · 2026-07-23
The joke: someone asks GPT-5.6 to track an agent’s API costs across its tools, and two hours later it responds with a “bank-grade” ledger down to six decimal places, cryptographically secured.
It’s a classic example of AI overengineering a simple request into something absurdly elaborate.
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