Agents

Agents: Where agentic loops actually spend the budget. 33 field notes from the engineers shipping Nadir's LLM routing layer.

Posts in Agents

• The Heartbeat Bill (2026-11-01)
• The Invoice Won't Tell You (2026-10-26)
• The $132 Bug Hunt (2026-10-20)
• The Tail Latency Tax (2026-10-19)
• Mostly Rereading (2026-10-14)
• The Triage Call (2026-10-12)
• The Stopping Problem (2026-10-05)
• Route the Step (2026-10-01)
• No Exit (2026-09-28)
• The A2A Tax (2026-09-23)
• The Search Tax (2026-09-18)
• Patch or Pay (2026-09-13)
• The Monkey Tax (2026-09-12)
• The Agent Got a Credit Card (2026-09-04)
• The Re-Review Tax (2026-08-28)
• The Prefix Tax (2026-08-17)
• The Memory Tax (2026-08-16)
• Your Agent Is O(n²) (2026-08-11)
• The Blast Radius Bill (2026-08-08)
• One Tool Call at a Time (2026-07-13)
• The Deep Research Premium (2026-07-12)
• The Eval Tax (2026-07-08)
• The Voice Tax (2026-07-07)
• Anthropic's Multi-Agent Research System Uses 15x the Tokens (2026-07-04)
• 114,000 Tokens to Read One Page (2026-07-03)
• 82% Before the First Word (2026-06-27)
• The MCP Catalog Tax (2026-06-25)
• Billed Twenty Times (2026-06-17)
• The Tool Schema Tax (2026-06-16)
• The Meter Is Running (2026-06-05)
• A Thousand Times Chat (2026-05-20)
• Thirty-Seven Percent Wasted (2026-05-15)
• Where the Tokens Go (2026-05-11)

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