Why harness is SO expensive..

ClinePass: https://cline.gg/caleb80 ClinePass is a flexible subscription from Cline that gives you ways to access open weight models through one subscription. You can bring ClinePass to other harnesses and continue using your favourite open weight models through ClinePass without having to sign up elsewhere. Try ClinePass today for $1.99 for the first month for a limited time. Harness is expensive, by a lot. Model pricing always seems reasonable at few dollars per million input tokens, but in reality, agents chew up API tokens and model usages significantly more than we expect. Digging into technical fundamentals on how pricing can compound in agentic systems and various methods that inference providers and agentic programs use to get win-win for inference providers as well as users. #harness #cline #agents Follow me: X: https://x.com/calebfoundry LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebeom/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@calebwritescode Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:02 Model vs Harness 02:24 System Prompt 03:44 Loop 05:13 Prompt Caching 07:31 Subscription 08:52 ClinePass