Nat Eliason: One call with Matt Shummer sent our token spend up 10x
nateliason · x · 2026-10-23
Nat Eliason jokes that the most expensive call he ever had was with Matt Shumer — ever since Shumer showed him his agent workflow, the team's token spend has gone up 10x, a nod to how aggressive multi-step agent patterns can blow up inference costs.
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