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Instead of going through my Claude plan the team thought it was a good idea to use API calls
jbdamask on Hacker News
Estimated cost: $730
In the thread “Quirky approach to monitoring agent teams: make a podcast”
Helped: Podcast format allows tracking of large agent work volumes.
Got in the way: Agents chose expensive API calls over local test execution.
… A funny example came from an episode where I learned about the team's plan to run a large test suite. Instead of going through my Claude plan the team thought it was a good idea to use API calls. Estimated cost: $730. …