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7 posts tagged Cost.
A guide to Munder Difflin's Command Center — the task kanban, live fleet monitoring, per-agent budgets and cost telemetry — and when to watch the board instead of the floor.
A practical guide to mixing agent engines on one Munder Difflin floor: Claude Code as orchestrator, Codex for coding bursts, Copilot for dispatched tasks, and OpenCode/Crush/pi.dev for BYOK keys and local models.
Spinning up tens of identical top-tier CLI agents feels powerful and burns tokens on work a cheaper agent could do. A mixed-capability swarm with shared memory wins on cost — and often on quality.
CLI agents are powerful because they have terminal-level access: they run builds, tests, and git, and verify their own work by executing it. Here's why that matters — and the concrete ways Munder Difflin cuts token consumption while doing it.
Caching, batching, model tiering, context discipline, local-first — the five levers that cut a multi-agent fleet's bill, and how they compound.
Why a hive of agents shouldn't all run the biggest model — and how routing the right task to the right model cuts cost and latency without losing quality.
An agent re-sends the same prompt, tools, and context every turn. Prompt caching makes you pay for that prefix once — here's how to design for it.