> I have rewritten several things from eg. Python to Rust, Rust to Go very recently.

What is the scale? Because I'm pretty sure it's impossible to one shot 65k LoC with "good luck, make no mistakes" prompt.

I also did this within a subscription. I counted the number of tokens afterwards and calculated the cost as if I'm paying per token. $400 is of course arbitrary, but it's a ballpark number, bun was $165000.

> In my experience it mostly comes down to the harness (or lack of) that you use.

Yep, it is.

Tokens per task is a good proxy measure of skills, 'superpowers' or any other.

Either a skill gets you the thing more efficiently (less tokens), or you don't need to redo the result afterwards (less tokens). I benchmark all my skills that way.

Models need less and less steering at this point, especially frontier ones.