There is no way this is economical. Burn through your token limit in agent mode just to thrash around a few more times trying to identify where the agent "misu

There is no way this is economical. Burn through your token limit in agent mode just to thrash around a few more times trying to identify where the agent "misunderstood" the prompt. The only time LLM's work as coding agents for me is tightly scoped prompts with a small isolated context. Just throwing an entire codebase into an LLM in an agentic loop seems like a fools errand.