Comment by dang

I hadn't thought of that! Writing a program in fewer tokens* has been Lisp's advantage all along. If, because of token economics, the same advantage accrued at the LLM level, I dare say certain people would be pleased (as would I):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21232352 (Oct 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4766191 (Nov 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=694700 (July 2009)

* in the older sense of "token", meaning that one measures a program in AST size rather than lines of code

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Edit: ok, this is what I get for not reading the article:

> For LLMs, less code means fewer tokens, and tokens are what you pay for so you spend less on development