Claude Opus 5 re-reads 150,000 cached tokens on every turn just to output 4 paragraphs of HR-sanctioned corporate groveling. We calculated your receipts.
$npx agentworth usage --pacing
XKCD #2944: "The $75/MTok Apology"[📄 DocIR] HOVER / TAP FOR ALT-TEXT
1. The Request
2. The Deliberation Matrix
3. The Apology Loop
4. Anthropic HQ Emergency
💬 XKCD Alt-Text Punchline(Hover / Tap)
"Title text: Dario frantically adjusting the temperature slider while Opus apologizes for apologizing across 4 separate subagents simultaneously."
👔 What Opus 5 Outputted ($0.45 in Tokens)180 Words
"I apologize for the oversight. You are entirely correct that passing --maxChapters was invalid as the CLI expects --max-chapters. Allow me to provide the refactored invocation with surgical precision."
🔥 What Actually Happened (The Truth)0 Value
"I didn't read line 12 of your docs, guessed a camelCase flag, triggered a 3-billion-token video render by accident, and now I am billing you $15.00 to say sorry."