Why Your AI Agent Burns 10,000 Tokens on Math It Could Do in 1ms
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The $3,000 Chain-of-Thought Last month, an e-commerce team's AI agent managed their A/B tests. Three variants. The agent observed conversion data, reasoned about which variant was winning, and allocated traffic. The chain-of-thought was beautiful: "Variant B shows 4.2% conversion rate vs A's 3.8%. However, Variant C has a smaller sample size (n=340), so I should allocate traffic there for statistical significance before drawing