Would you prefer to save money with dial-up when your competitors are using fiber? Recorded on Hot Take Thursday, @sqs and @thorstenball are back with a new Raising An Agent. In this episode they discuss how cheaper models end up costing more, why they do not not wait for agents, running evals in Orbs, and the hot takes Thorsten left out of his X post last week. 00:00 Intro: Engineers who forget the history of technology 01:55 Hot Take Thursday & a €50-a-week token budget 05:14 Why cheap models cost more than frontier models 08:11 Token budgets & who gets priced out 14:06 Disrupt yourself with small teams & unlimited tokens 16:38 Agents go horizontal across the software lifecycle 20:56 Rollouts, bug reports & "I'm feeling Pucky" 23:53 Code review, monorepos & other walls around the agent 25:30 How to show a cautious company what agents can do 29:48 Why most people haven't seen what agents can do 31:57 Don't wait for your agent 33:38 Simple evals & agents testing agents in Orbs 38:27 Why Amp has runners too 40:47 Follow your energy & stay aligned 46:33 The hot take Thorsten left out 54:14 Do languages & frameworks still matter?