#token-cost
Every post tagged "token-cost".
22 posts · showing 21–22
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Reflection Loops Are Not Free: When Self-Critique Makes the Output Worse
A critique step can only catch what was already derivable from the context — and asked to find problems, a model will find them in passages that were fine. Here's when the pattern earns its doubled token bill.
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The Retry Storm Your Dashboard Can't See: When Agent Failures Multiply Instead of Add
Three retry layers, each sensible on its own, compose by multiplication — and a failure at step fourteen costs the whole context, not the failed call. Your per-call dashboard will stay green the entire time.