AI builders are bleeding money in a place spreadsheets miss: API calls. You ship an agent. It works. Then it hits 10,000 calls/day and your Claude bill explodes. So you throttle it. Now it’s slower, dumber, and less useful. You traded capability for budget. The real drain
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AI builders are bleeding money in a place spreadsheets miss: API calls. You ship an agent. It works. Then it hits 10,000 calls/day and your Claude bill explodes. So you throttle it. Now it’s slower, dumber, and less useful. You traded capability for budget. The real drain