Hermes and Pi Agent led on the average cost per task, while Claude Code cost about 3.7x as much as Pi:
- $0.39 Hermes Agent
- $0.40 Pi Agent
- $0.47 Codex
- $0.51 OpenCode
- $0.54 Kimi Code
- $1.47 Claude Code
The median cost tells the same story: $0.29 in Pi Agent and Hermes, $0.35 in OpenCode, $0.38 in Kimi Code, $0.39 in Codex and $0.72 in Claude Code, so the cost gap holds for a typical task and is not driven by a few expensive runs.
We calculated these costs using Kimi K3’s list prices: $3/1M input tokens, $0.30/1M cached input tokens, and $15/1M output tokens.
BlockchainDoug retweeted
More people should use this spec for defining agents that ship with a project for the purpose of doing work on the project.
dotagentsprotocol.com/
BlockchainDoug retweeted
Someone asks, "At what point do you create multiple agents?"
Any time you have a task that can't be done within a single context window of your model, you should consider how you might be able to define agents to do a smaller portion of the work.
BlockchainDoug retweeted
One of the most OP AI techniques I know of is:
Instead of asking AI to do X, ask it to make you a script to do X. Then you use the script to do the task instead of AI.
This idea is less intuitive for non-software people, but it's extremely useful and easier than it seems.
BlockchainDoug retweeted
When I'm giving AI advice to non-technical people, I think one of the most important pieces of advice that can be given...is the opening line of this project:
github.com/devenjarvis/lathe
"[Use] LLMs to teach you, rather than think for you."
BlockchainDoug retweeted
This is why Haskell still has a lot of value in the world of agentic engineering that we are entering.
dsifry.github.io/metaswarm/
This book was really ahead of its time...couldn't be more relevant today.
The Microsoft / CrowdStrike BSOD illustrates the dangers of these kinds of global kill switches. I have previously elected to not sign macOS applications binaries that I have distributed because that gives @Apple a trivial kill switch on my application.
PSA: There's a new (to me) crypto scam going on out there folks. I just got a text message saying it's from Coinbase and something about my account being disabled. Then, literally seconds later I got a phone call from a San Francisco number saying they're from Coinbase. Stay safe
Here's a video of my keynote at #viewschool's recent Vue.js Forge online event where I give a basic intro to blockchain and $KDA.
youtube.com/watch?v=S-qL63UQ…
When students watched an instructional video that they said was clear, their scores when tested on the material did not improve. When students watched a video that they said was confusing, their scores nearly doubled. The difference? Effort and work.
youtube.com/watch?v=RQaW2bFi…









