Don't let a always-on agent use Astra for yes-or-no questions
A tiered setup routes small decisions to Jev, exact rules to plain code and only hard problems to Astra, cutting a million decisions from $10,000 to $42.
Read this before your OpenAI Dot burns $10 per million on yes-or-no questions. it turns one expensive 24/7 agent into a ladder that only pays for brains when it has to: → Jev answers every small decision at $0.042 per million, 238x cheaper → plain code runs the exact rules for $0 → GPT-6.1 Sol writes the routine drafts at $2 → GPT-6 Astra wakes up only for the hard problems at $10 → Jev checks every result: done, retry or review → code blocks "done" if a single test failed → you sign off on anything that moves money or deletes data 1,000,000 decisions on Jev cost $42. the same million on Astra costs $10,000 the biggest difference is simple: your agent stops asking the $10 brain what to do next and starts asking the $0.042 one. I wouldn't leave a Dot running overnight without this anymore. save it now. build it this weekend ↓
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