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Traditional LLM applications are billed by token, and their cost model is relatively simple; the autonomous loop characteristic of Agents causes costs to grow non-linearly with task complexity.
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10/15/2026
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Navige: Using Sufficiency Intelligence to Control Runaway AI Agent Costs
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