"Humans are cheaper than tokens on average, but good tokens are cheaper at scale." For median firms, agent costs sit ne…
By a16z · AI Agents
"Humans are cheaper than tokens on average, but good tokens are cheaper at scale." For median firms, agent costs sit near $80/hour, roughly in line with a software engineer. But at the tails, an agent can cost $4/hour or $7,000/hour depending on how it's managed. Hebbia CEO George Sivulka on why 100X tokens are the new 10X engineers: