When to Stop an Agent Mid-Run
Watching an agent work produces a specific reluctance to interrupt it, and that reluctance is expensive. Here are the four signals worth stopping on, and why the sunk cost is smaller than it feels.
5 min read6 posts across Supervising Agents, Systems & Adoption
Watching an agent work produces a specific reluctance to interrupt it, and that reluctance is expensive. Here are the four signals worth stopping on, and why the sunk cost is smaller than it feels.
5 min readUber exhausted its 2026 AI budget in four months. Sam Altman says enterprise cost complaints are now 'a meme.' The root cause isn't reckless spend — it's deploying always-on agents for tasks a single prompt could handle. Here's the three-tier framework that fixes it.
5 min readUber blew its annual AI budget in months. Simon Willison's $200 subscription runs $2,180 in compute. Anthropic's revenue went 5x in five months. If your team budgeted for AI tools in Q4, those numbers are already wrong — here's how to reset them.
4 min readClaude Pro subscribers consume $200–400 of compute per $20/month. OpenAI loses $1.22 for every $1 earned. GitHub Copilot switches to usage-based billing June 1. The price you pay for AI today is not the price it costs to run. Here's how to plan for when that changes.
5 min readLicences issued and hours saved are the two most common AI metrics and neither survives contact with reality. Four measures that tell you something, and one number worth having.
5 min readWhen Anthropic updated Claude to Opus 4.7, real-world token usage jumped roughly 40% — with no pricing announcement. Here's what that means for any team running AI workflows at any scale.
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