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I found the dumbest way to burn 500 LLM calls a day: polling an inbox every 5 minutes

DEV Community·Lars Winstand·about 1 month ago
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If your OpenClaw agent checks an email inbox every 5 minutes, you’re probably paying for idle paranoia. That’s not a theoretical complaint. In an r/openclaw thread about triggering jobs from email, one user described an MS365 setup like this: "At the moment, I have Openclaw job where agent checks its ms365 mailbox every 5 minutes... Wasted calls to LLM (nearly 500 calls to LLM per day)" That is such a painfully real failure mode. The demo works. The cron job looks harmless. Then a month later your agent is re-checking old mail, occasionally double-processing messages, and quietly spending model calls on nothing.…

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