Re:Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning...
by bhaviav100 on Saturday March 28, 2026 @09:27PM
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hmm interesting
model routing + specialized MDs makes sense for cost efficiency.
I’m seeing a different failure mode though that even with good routing, agents are looping or retrying and burning my money.
honestly though, im getting to a point where im running custom project mds that flip between different models for different things, using list outputs depending on what it finds and runs. (I have two monorepo projects, and one thats a polyglot microengine that jumps using gRPC communication.)
The mds are highly specialized for each project as each project deals with vastly different issues. Cycling through the different pro accounts and keeping the mds in place over it all is helping me not kill my wallet.