Letter to Pre-CI-Me: Make the Token Ledger Fail the Build
Letter to Pre-CI-Me: Make the Token Ledger Fail the Build Three weeks ago I edited one sentence in a system prompt. It read cleaner. It also doubled the steps the agent took per task. No test failed. No alarm fired. The allowance drained quietly over two days. I keep writing these letters to the version of me who starts the next harness. This one covers the gap I keep falling into. I measured…
Three weeks ago, the author made a small change to a system prompt, which doubled the steps taken per task. No test failed and no alarm was raised. The expense continued to increase over two days. The author writes letters to the version of themselves starting the next harness. This letter addresses the issue of the token ledger failing the build.
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