LLM API Costs Balloon When Every Agent Step Uses the Same Model
Multi-step AI agents typically route every call to a single LLM regardless of task difficulty, wasting spend on trivial steps like boilerplate generation. This launch post frames agent execution as a trajectory where routing decisions should vary by step rather than treating each call independently.
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