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Where agentic coding tools spend tokens in practice
Context windows, tool loops, and retries multiply spend — budgets and caching that keep demos affordable.
9 min readThe Compute Cost of Agent Loops vs Chatbots
Why an agent loop with ReAct-style planning and tool chains can cost 10x the inference of chatbots on one bounded LLM call, and the guardrails that cap it.
9 min readLLM Monitoring in Production: Metrics, Quality, Cost, Safety
LLM monitoring in production: SLIs for latency, errors, tokens, groundedness and safety, plus observability alerts that catch quiet quality decay early.
11 min readCut LLM spend with a LiteLLM token router
LiteLLM sits between apps and providers, routing short prompts to cheap models and heavy ones to Opus—about 28% savings in a simulated engineer month.
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