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0 pointsanditherobot2mo ago0 comments

Fair challenge to the idea. But what i am saying is that every line of boilerplate, every import statement, every configuration file consumes precious tokens.

The more code, the more surface area the LLM needs to cover before understanding or implementing correctly.

Right now the solution to expensive token limits is the most token-efficient technology. let's reframe it better. Was react made to help humans organize code better or machines?

Is the High Code-to-Functionality Ratio 3 lines that do real work > 50 lines of setup really necessary?

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lucid-dev2mo ago

But why are you considering tokens so precious?

At current prices you can pretty much get away with murder even for the most expensive models out there. You know, $14/million output tokens. 10k output tokens is 14 cents. Which is ~40k words, or whatever.

The way to use LLM's for development is to use the API.

d13z2mo ago

I'm not so worried about the money but more about context rot. I used spec driven development for a week and I had constant compacting with Claude code. I burned 200€ in one week and now I'm trying something different: only show diffs and try to always talk to me in interfaces. I do think that at some point there will be frameworks or languages optimised for LLMs.

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