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Agent Economics (The Agents Season, Episode 10)
22 June 2026 24:24 Katie Malone
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What if building more highways made your commute slower? That's the paradox at the heart of AI agent economics: even as per-token inference costs have plummeted dramatically over the past two years, total LLM spending keeps climbing. Drawing on a surprising lesson from Robert Moses's mid-century New York infrastructure projects, this episode unpacks why cheaper compute doesn't necessarily mean cheaper AI — and what's really driving the economics of running agents at scale.
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