pxpipe is a local proxy that renders dense system prompts and old history as PNGs before they hit Claude Code. Real workloads report 59 to 70 percent lower bills, with a lossy catch you need to understand.
Brian Armstrong's team runs 1,200 AI agents, defaults to GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.7, and automated model selection. Five levers any engineering org can copy without a crypto-scale budget.
Composer 2.5 scores 62 on the Coding Agent Index for $0.07 per task while Opus 4.7 costs $4.10. For agent loops, routing beats defaulting to frontier models.