How I use agents for my personal projects
The article discusses the author's experience using AI agents for personal projects. It highlights the high costs associated with these agents and offers insights on how to manage token usage effectively. The author shares specific tools and strategies to optimize productivity while minimizing expenses.
- ▪Agents can be very expensive, with costs reaching up to $150-170 a month depending on usage.
- ▪The author uses two agents and one LLM, focusing on specific tasks like code reviews and generating tests.
- ▪Explicitly guiding agents with detailed prompts helps save tokens and reduces unnecessary costs.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 50319) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Harutyun Mardirossian Posted on May 26 How I use agents for my personal projects #ai #agents #programming #productivity Agents are expensive, like awfully expensive. For example, Claude can charge up to $25 per million tokens, almost the same, but a little bit cheaper, for Codex from OpenAI. So in rough calculations, depending on usage, you can spend up to $150-170 a month (if you check Reddit, people proudly burn $2k-4k a month, this is insanely expensive).
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