Re:Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
by rubicon33 on Monday February 16, 2026 @12:05PM
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there’s something of a paradox there. Reduce the context window and work on smaller/tightly scoped requests? Isn’t the whole value proposition that I can work much faster? To do that, I naturally try to describe what I want at a higher, vaguer level.
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Re:Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
by readyforbrunch on Monday February 16, 2026 @01:53PM
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That's where something like openspec and beads come in. You work high level, create a spec and break it down into beads (small tasks). Your main agent then spawns workers that perform a task with limited scope.