Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering

2 comments

• drivebyhooting 7 minutes ago
  In the past Google et al would hire engineers based on how well they could optimize the infrastructure.

  Maybe soon companies will look at how engineers can optimize the token efficiency of AI.
• sakuraiben 24 minutes ago
  One thing I've noticed using agents for coding is that they really like to write thousands of unit tests but not dynamically test.
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  • drivebyhooting 6 minutes ago
    And they like to burn a ton of tokens writing and debugging tests that are semantically corrupt.
  • make3 20 minutes ago
    you can just tell them to do more dynamic testing. I think dynamic testing is partly frowned upon because it slows things down & can take down software where you wouldn't expect