i think when you are testing out ideas you cannot also be thinking about how efficient that is. it doesn't make a lot of sense unless the problem you are trying

i think when you are testing out ideas you cannot also be thinking about how efficient that is. it doesn't make a lot of sense unless the problem you are trying to solve is efficiency. So like, I get your point, but I don't think anyone is wasting tokens, the LLM explores different solutions and arrives at ones that work. You seem to not want to pay for the tokens used on bad solutions, but they were useful to find the actual solutions. I also think that there are plenty of software licenses that we pay for in my work that are multiple times 5-6k/year and yet all our software is much cheaper than the salaries that cover our developers. Good developer tools are always worth it imo.