๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฝ ๐๐ ๐ก๐ผ๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ You need to think about what you're building. Peter Steinberger said you should design loops that prompt your agents. He's right, but that's not the hard question. Before agents, we had cron jobs. They were simple and honest about what they did. Now we have multi-agent systems. They add adaptability, but remove legibility. Companies are quietly running the math and going pale. Uber burned through its entire annual AI budget in four months. AI computing costs now exceed employee labor costs. The mechanism has a name: the agentic loop multiplier. A simple query in 2023 cost $0.04 per interaction. A multi-step orchestrated agent workflow in 20