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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

611 points · 302 comments · elffjs

  1. tkgally · · focus · HN ↗
    > In an ideal world, our agents could help with this.

    Not exactly the sort of case Simon has in mind, but I tell Claude to keep to hard daily limits on its OpenRouter spending for two long-running projects [1, 2].

    A Routine for each project fires ever few hours, and Claude decides itself what to do in each session. It does tasks that require calls to other models through OpenRouter only when it is still within its daily budget for that project; after it reaches that cap, it does other tasks that don’t require extra spending.

    [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tkgally&#x2F;je-dict-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tkgally&#x2F;je-dict-1

    [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tkgally&#x2F;eex-dict" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tkgally&#x2F;eex-dict

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