Management wants 2 things:
• Predictable costs, timelines, and outcomes
• For you to use AI, which is structurally incapable of accomplishing this because token costs per task can VARY UP TO 30X from run to run
arxiv.org
How Do AI Agents Spend Your Money? Analyzing and Predicting Token Consumption in Agentic Coding Tasks
The wide adoption of AI agents in complex human workflows is driving rapid growth in LLM token consumption. When agents are deployed on tasks that require a significant amount of tokens, three questio...