This whole idea of prompting an LLM and piping the output as the input (prompt) of another LLM and asking it to do something with it (like critique/edit it) and

This whole idea of prompting an LLM and piping the output as the input (prompt) of another LLM and asking it to do something with it (like critique/edit it) and then piping the output of that LLM back to the first LLM along with instructions to keep repeating the process until some stop criteria is met seems to me to just be a money-making scheme to drive up token consumption.