Agent optimization factors multiply: 10x cost, calls, and speed each yields 1,000x improvement
wordgrammer · x · 2026-11-10
wordgrammer notes a key property of agent engineering optimizations: they multiply. Lowering token costs, reducing tool calls, and speeding up each call — 10x on each — easily compounds into a 1,000x improvement. Failure cases, by contrast, cost money.
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