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>>laurex+(OP)
I wish more had been written about the first assertion that using an LLM to code is like gambling and you're always hoping that just one more prompt will get you what you want.

It really captures how little control one has over the process, while simultaneously having the illusion of control.

I don't really believe that code is being made verbose to make more profits. There's probably some element of model providers not prioritizing concise code, but if conciseness while maintaining "quality" was possible is would give one model a sufficient edge over others that I suspect providers would do it.

>>andy99+E9
I don't believe there are perverse incentives yet, right now it's arms race burn money and operate at a loss days. There is no moat only quality and price per token and the leader moves around too quickly. Also Author should really look into Cursor at $20 with unlimited slow requests, I imagine paying per token hurts when it spits out garbage even when you've thought you provided enough context but it wasn't enough.

Someone needs to make a plugin to count lines of discard code and prompts