Most AI agents have no concept of opportunity cost [D]

One thing that's been bugging me is how casually a lot of agents use tools. Every tool call adds something. More latency. Another thing that can fail. More context to carry around. I've seen agents call five or six tools for work that probably could've been done with two. It made me wonder if we're optimizing for "the agent can use this tool" instead of "the agent should use this tool." I'd love to see agents tre