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		pphysch 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The economics of software teams: Why most engineer... Big business LLMs even have the opposite incentive, to churn as many tokens as possible.

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jjk7 12 days ago [–]

At least tokens are equivalent to measuring 'thinking'... I wouldn't mind if it burned 100k tokens to output a one line change to fix a bug.

The problem is maximizing code generated per token spent. This model of "efficiency" is fundamentally broken.

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