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Code mode slashes LLM token costs by 99.2%

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Hacker News ·

Agent Swarm's new 'code mode' reduces LLM token usage by 99.2% by outputting structured code instead of natural language. The technique cuts costs dramatically for multi-step agent workflows. Early tests show no loss in task accuracy for supported use cases.

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The 99.2% figure is striking, but the real test is whether code mode generalizes beyond the narrow benchmarks shown.
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