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Re:Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning... by bisonbear on Sunday March 29, 2026 @11:03AM (#47563774)
cost control is a policy problem - we certainly don't need to use opus 4.6 for a simple test refactor, but many people (including myself) default to it anyways. we need a way to measure cost / performance for agents on individual repos, with individual types of tasks, to get a better sense of what tasks can be trusted to cheaper agents, and what tasks must be routed to the SOTA
Re:Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning... by bhaviav100 on Sunday March 29, 2026 @12:02PM (#47564323)
Exactly why I built this.

But cost control is not an entirely policy problem. Policies are just guidelines.