It also presents tradeoffs in compute budget. Cycles spent executing large arrays of tests could mean less tokens spent debugging.
I am not asking about time or completeness. I am asking if this person is spending 1 dollar to make more than a dollar, or if they are spending 1 dollar to make less than a dollar.
Any other criteria is not necessary to consider, if the activity is not profitable.
Vibes, baby, vibes!!!
you can't just handwave this all away with "vibe baby, vibe" and then high-fiving each other that oh you're so clever because you manually write code/think the code is too high.