Why Always-On AI Agents Are a Resource Nightmare: The True Cost of Meta Muse and Token Waste
“It’s your always-on assistant”. This is the common refrain for all the new agent harnesses – Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots, etc. And it’s terrible. Here’s why: an always-on agent is, well, always on. That means it’s always consuming resources in some fashion, whether or not you want it to be. For example, I use Hermes…