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As engineering teams scale their reliance on AI agents, managing API costs without degrading code quality or agent reliability becomes critical. Caveman addresses this with continuous automated regression grading and verifiable accounting rather than unproven estimates.
Caveman takes aim at speculative cost claims in the LLM ecosystem by defaulting verified savings to zero until tested on live traffic. Its technical safeguard—failing closed on unknown graders and requiring validation across schema correctness and byte-level fidelity—tackles the primary risk of prompt shortening: degraded agent performance. The release of fine-tuned weights like CaveGemma illustrates a systematic approach combining model-level adjustments with strict runtime verification.
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