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AI agents will face penalties for using inefficient tools
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It will be increasingly irritating, costly, and slow for agents not to use the right tool for the job. Here’s an example where the agent was able to accomplish a task at high accuracy in a few seconds at low cost via @mpp rather than sloppily burning gobs of tokens for minutes.
backseatvc@backseatvcSep 1
Burning tokens is like burning money, and I'm becoming more aware when my agent burning tokens building a workaround vs just paying-per-call for a tool For example, I built a site to track how allergen friendly some of the (great!) Italian NYC restaurants are, which requires the agent to parse the menus (which can be complicated!) My agent took about 4-5 minutes to build this and paid $0.04 over @mpp to Minibase (a URL to markdown converter for the trickier menus) vs 8-10 minutes and 3x the tokens