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Featured — Jun 2026
The $47,000 Agent Loop — What Went Wrong and How to Prevent It
One uncapped agent loop. One overnight session. A $47k incident that rewrote how a team thinks about agent cost guardrails — and the exact pattern that would have caught it at $47.
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Jun 2026
Claude Sonnet vs. Haiku: The 12 Workload Comparison You Actually Need
Not a benchmark. A workload-by-workload guide showing which tasks warrant Sonnet and which are overpaying by 5x. Named models, real cost numbers, ranked by ROI.
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May 2026
The $847→$160 Month: How One Optimization Changed Everything
A real anonymized case. The client was using GPT-4o for customer support at $847/month. One model substitution. Same quality scores. $687/month back.
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May 2026
Why Your ChatGPT Team Plan Might Be Costing You More Than Direct API
ChatGPT Team is $25–30/user/month with a cap. Direct API access to the same models costs a fraction for moderate usage — and removes the cap. The math most teams skip.
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