10h agoNorthwestern's Zihan Wang introduces BAGEN, finding early stopping based on budget awareness could cut agent token costs by up to 64%Tested agents showed a weak 0.35 cost prediction correlation.SentimentSentimentPos50%Neg50%Positive users praise studies on LLM agents underestimating token budgets and express excitement about advancing budget-aware capabilities, while negative users criticize the optimism bias baked into models, founders, and engineers.5 comments with sentiment. View comments.