HOW WE ELIMINATED $1 MILLION A YEAR OF WASTED AI AGENT SPEND IN ONE HOUR

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Databricks traced silent MCP tool failures that caused agents to repeatedly retry, revealing seven small bugs responsible for an estimated $499,000 in wasted tokens and $1.2 million in annual lost productivity. Fixing them took about an hour, highlighting the value of tracing tool calls and designing tools to accept the reasonable input variations generated by LLMs.