Skip to content
MindPattern
Wire
Briefings
Search
Subscribe
← The Wire
Source trail
Quesma / Hacker News
Public MindPattern findings, entities, and graph evidence that cite this source.
Findings
1
All-time hits
1
High value
0
Last seen
2026-07-20
Related findings
2026-07-20 / HACKER NEWS
'I Burned All My Tokens Researching How to Save Tokens' — Custom Deep Research Pipeline Post-Mortem
Quesma published a build log of a custom deep-research pipeline whose token-optimization effort consumed more budget than it saved, hitting 155 points and 197 comments on HN. The value is in the specifics of where multi-agent research pipelines leak tokens — redundant fan-out, re-fetching the same sources across agents, and context re-injection between stages. Directly relevant to anyone running orchestrated research agents, where the cost model is dominated by input tokens rather than generation.
Open latest cited source
Wire
Briefings
Search
Subscribe