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Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?
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Re: Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?
#42Not really sure if you mean setups like OpenClaw as well, but I ran into pretty similar issues there.
That was actually a big part of why I started building my own agent system, Arc agent, mostly just to see if I could solve some of the problems every agent faces. A few practical things helped, putting limits on iteration/retry loops so the agent can’t wander forever, being stricter about context/tool handling once external skills are in play and adding a simple cost/token counter so I could at least see where usage was going. I also tried to reduce the usage of llm whereever a simple code would work more reliably.
I tried to tackle few other problems like downtime during context compaction etc, but yeah the project is still work in progress and i am experimenting with diff stuff.
Re: Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?
#43I have yet to go over the standard limits (by that I mean whatever is included with my normal Copilot and ChatGPT subscriptions), but I only started really using it the past couple of months.
At least right now I don't see myself going over the standard limits for my personal projects. I'm not implementing more than 2-3 features a day at most, so only a handful of prompts.
I have come close to reaching the limit at work this month, but I don't have to pay for the extra requests so I'm not super concerned. I also hit it pretty hard this month with a pretty gnarly upgrade that required a lot of back and forth, which is what accumulated a lot of that usage.
Not sure how you're using so much that you're getting big bills out of this.
Re: Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?
#44Not really sure if you mean setups like OpenClaw as well, but I ran into pretty similar issues there. That was actually a big part of why I started building my own agent system, Arc agent, mostly just to see if I could solve some of the problems every agent faces. A few practical things helped, putting limits on iteration/retry loops so the agent can’t wander forever, being stricter about context/tool handling once e…
Sounds exciting..I liked the token counter concept. Didn't thought about it though.
Do you have a GitHub repo?
Re: Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?
#45I have yet to go over the standard limits (by that I mean whatever is included with my normal Copilot and ChatGPT subscriptions), but I only started really using it the past couple of months. At least right now I don't see myself going over the standard limits for my personal projects. I'm not implementing more than 2-3 features a day at most, so only a handful of prompts. I have come close to reaching the limit at w…
Especially when you are running multiple agents for research
Re: Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?
#46Mine have burned a lot of money! Right now, I'm trying to keep the context smaller. It takes a lot of discipline, though, to have a system that gives enough context to do the work but not so much the agent can go off doing new/crazy stuff.
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Re: Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?
#47Not really sure if you mean setups like OpenClaw as well, but I ran into pretty similar issues there. That was actually a big part of why I started building my own agent system, Arc agent, mostly just to see if I could solve some of the problems every agent faces. A few practical things helped, putting limits on iteration/retry loops so the agent can’t wander forever, being stricter about context/tool handling once e…
Sounds exciting..I liked the token counter concept. Didn't thought about it though. Do you have a GitHub repo?
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