Agent Teams Get Expensive Fast: How to Cut Costs While Keeping Gains
nouhadziri · x · 2026-10-14
A transitional tweet framing the core research question: teams of agents can get very expensive very quickly, so how do you reduce cost as much as possible while retaining most of the performance gains? The thread answers: delegate only planning, and use cheap models as planners.
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