🔮 The curious economics of a $6 AI agent #597

Exponential View · 2 months ago · 11

An AI agent run by the author and monitored through an audit overshot its expected spending after multiple model runs, leading to a costly spike. The agent hit $500 a day during the flare-up before costs were reined in. After switching to progressively cheaper models by default, the author says the agent now averages $6 a day, while data-center spending and local borrowing costs remain a separate downstream economic concern.