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by lanthissa 20 days ago
the amount of system prompt wastage going on in orgs is insane. we identified 400k in annual burn for zero value in just one section of our large company.

and the interesting thing about system prompt wastage is its a cost that scales non linearly with subagent use.

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The non-linearity is interesting. Is the default behavior for subagents in CC/OpenCode loading the same full system prompt (or AGENTS.md)?
I'm sorry, what! 400k...?