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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.

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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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