How to Close the AI Agent Cost Gap at the Call Site
Last week I wrote about Anthropic's IPO and the 40% cost-savings gap. That post keeps pulling traffic, and the question I keep getting is the same one: "Okay, the gap is real. How do I actually close it?"
The gap is the difference between what an AI agent could cost and what it actually costs in production. Vendors quote you the happy path. Your bill quotes you reality. The two are 40% apart for most teams, sometimes worse.
Here is the thing nobody tells you. You do not close that gap with a dashboard. You close it at the call site, in the code, line by line. Here is how.
The gap lives in three places
