Yes, the grilling part is where the LLM energy drain is for me, I haven't released any of the software I've been working on yet because they lack polish in my opinion. They may have nobel goals, but no point unleashing more slop on the world. Often when I ask for a correction something new breaks, or it reveals the next corner the model and I didn't think about. I've seen the models come a long way in a short time. I'm tinkering and paying by the token for deepseek flash picked for its economy and using it to teach myself and form opinions on languages and frameworks that are new to me. It's hard to describe the worth of these opinions, but I think they're important, kinda like why I read a lot of HN looking for morsels of sentiment around the tech industry as represented here.