Comment by theptip

This is an underrated perspective. A common tactic I use with agents. Just building the slop prototype until it has enough fidelity to be obviously right or wrong can be way faster than sitting down, thinking hard, and planning in advance. This is especially true for background tasks, and IME is the key to productively parallelizing yourself without decision paralysis.

At some point token efficiency will bite, but even that is overrated; the metric you really should care about is:

impact / (salary + token spend)