A 50-agent cluster burned $48,600 until this floor locked the vault
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A 50-agent cluster burned $48,600 until this floor locked the vault An engineering team ran multi-turn autonomous coding loops on GPT-6 Astra Four sessions into production, the monthly API invoice hit $48,600 The cluster was drowning in its own context window By turn 15 the agents contradicted earlier architecture decisions. By turn 25 embedding saturation caused hallucinations and broken imports. The models re-read 1,050,000 tokens of raw repository files on every user prompt The mistake was treating the context window like an SSD instead of volatile RAM They killed the unconstrained pi
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