It seems like some of us treat tokens as the level of fuel in the code machine. When it runs out, you simply go do something else.

What's wild to me is that there's a whole other segment of people that treat tokens as, I dunno, some kind of malicious gatekeeping to the magical program generator. Some kind of endorphin rush of extracting functional code from a naive and poorly formed idea.

To the former group, the gambling metaphor is flatly ridiculous. The AI is a tool and tokens are your allocation for tool time. To the latter, someone is trying to stifle you and strangle your creativity behind arbitrary limits.

I don't know how to feel about this other than uneasy and worried.