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There is a big gap currently in AI assisted development. You don't need to max out tokens to build products or develop with AI. From my experience with AI assisted coding, we still use just two Plus accounts each across a three person team for maintaining multiple repositories totaling around 700K lines of code.

Companies should handhold employees, establish clear SOPs, and train them on responsible and effective AI assisted coding.

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>You don't need to max out tokens

Alternate take: it takes a lot of up front effort to ensure when you "max out tokens" the work is valuable.

The same thing goes for token use operating business processes (vs. building software that runs business processes): Let's imagine buying $250k tokens per year to operating some business processes - how much human effort is needed to ensure that level of spend is valuable? I'm using a number that could be "we could hire a skilled human at that level" as that changes the feel of the question.

That is where benchmarks matters. Good developers may be terrible with AI. Companies should put efforts, pick up a small team, and iterates on ways to reduce token usage. In our case we arrived after lot of back and forth. You shoul dnever allow somebody to use AI on one fine day and expect them to deliver 10X.

> Companies should handhold employees, establish clear SOPs, and train them on responsible and effective AI assisted coding.

The whole point of AI is for companies to invest less resources into employees. There's no way they start spending money on training people now, when that was already something that made executives roll their eyes before AI.

Wrong perception inmho. Ai is a new tool. people doesnt know how to efficiently use it. Iam saying after seeing countless of x and reddit feeds. We work on strict budget an dthat is where we iterates on maximum efficiency and it worked. Money may be yours, but compute consumes resources that belong to the world.

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