The Token Waste Problem: Why your AI Agents shouldn't evaluate permissions

Short summary

Multi-agent systems waste tokens by asking LLMs to evaluate deterministic tasks like permissions. Delegate policy enforcement to code; reserve AI reasoning for actual cognitive problems. This improves cost, reliability, and follows fundamental software engineering principles.

• •LLMs are probabilistic and expensive; don't use them for deterministic tasks
• •Policy checks, routing, and validation belong in code, not in prompts
• •Reserve LLM reasoning for actual cognitive work

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