The curious economics of a $6 AI agent #597
Azhar cut his increasingly capable personal agent from occasional $500 days and a typical $50-$60 to about $6 a day by routing routine work to subscriptions and cheaper models, reserving expensive frontier systems for hard tasks. The example captures falling unit costs alongside widening agent capability and use.
Why it matters
Agent businesses need cost observability and model routing as core product infrastructure. Falling inference cost supports more workflows, but it also means revenue forecasts based on today's spend per task are fragile.
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