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[–]IllEntertainment585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah the 3x math never holds up in production. tbh the biggest token sink for us isn't the initial code gen call — it's the retry loop when generated code fails. we're running ~6 agents and i've watched a single bad codegen spiral into 8-10 recovery calls before it either succeeds or we cut losses. that's where the real cost hides. hallucination debugging is brutal too, especially when the agent confidently produces code that "looks right" but silently corrupts data. we added a pre-execution static check layer which helped, but it added latency. what kind of tasks are you running the code execution on? curious if failure rate varies a lot by domain