Put the cheapest model at the widest part of the agent funnel

THE CHEAPEST MODEL BELONGS AT THE WIDEST PART OF YOUR AGENT draw an agent's work as a funnel instead of a loop and the bill explains itself everything lands at the top. mail, mentions, alerts, tool results. 2,048 steps in this schematic 6 out of 10 never make it past the second ring. ignore, duplicate, done and that's usually where the frontier model sits. reading every item in full, writing a little paragraph about it, then throwing it away jev sits there instead. state and a typed questio