Comment Comment by anditherobot We're overlooking a critical metric in AI-assisted development: Token and Context Window to Utility Ratio.AI coding tools are burning massive token budgets on boilerplate thousands of tokens just to render simple interfaces.Consider the token cost of "Hello World":- Tkinter: `import tkinter as tk; tk.Button(text="Hello").pack()`- React: 500MB of node_modules, and dependenciesRight now context windows token limits are finite and costly. What do you think?My prediction is that tooling that manage token and context efficiency will become essential. parent anditherobot 9 months ago
AI coding tools are burning massive token budgets on boilerplate thousands of tokens just to render simple interfaces.
Consider the token cost of "Hello World":
- Tkinter: `import tkinter as tk; tk.Button(text="Hello").pack()`
- React: 500MB of node_modules, and dependencies
Right now context windows token limits are finite and costly. What do you think?
My prediction is that tooling that manage token and context efficiency will become essential.