Name: Your Agent Is Wasting Tokens and You Don't Know It - Erik Hanchett, AWS
Uploaded: 2026-06-28
Description: I deployed an agent to production and the bill was not good. Not because the model was bad, but because it was doing too much. I was using the most expensive models for simple inference calls. The context was filling up. And my tool loops ran longer than they needed to. The agent worked fine, it just cost way more than

Why it matters

I deployed an agent to production and the bill was not good. Not because the model was bad, but because it was doing too much. I was using the most expensive models for simple inference calls. The context was filling up. And my tool loops ran longer than they needed to. The agent worked fine, it just cost way more than

My takeaway: Your Agent Is Wasting Tokens and You Don't Know It - Erik Hanchett, AWS is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.