Santiago Valdarrama Reports Tripled Token Costs
ML engineer Santiago Valdarrama reported sudden increases in token expenses from his agents.
Santiago Valdarrama, a computer scientist and ML engineer who teaches production AI work, posted that his token costs tripled over a few weeks. He stated he ran only a few agents and found nothing broken in the setup. The claim comes directly from his own account of billing changes while the configuration stayed the same. No further details on the exact agents or providers appear in the post.
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Santiago Valdarrama Reports Tripled Token Costs
ML engineer Santiago Valdarrama reported sudden increases in token expenses from his agents.
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Santiago@svpinoOur token costs tripled over a few weeks. We only had a few agents running, and nothing was broken, but costs went 3x what we expected. We looked at the traces, and this is what we found: • Agents were reading more files • They were loading more context • They were creating…
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SA Santiago@svpinoOur token costs tripled over a few weeks. We only had a few agents running, and nothing was broken, but costs went 3x what we expected. We looked at the traces, and this is what we found: • Agents were reading more files • They were loading more context • They were creating…
- likes: 32
- replies: 8
- bookmarks: 40
- reposts: 4
