With "art" we're now at a situation where I can get 50 variations of a image prompt within seconds from an LLM.

Does it matter that 49 of them "failed"? It cost me fractions of a cent, so not really.

If every one of the 50 variants was drawn by a human and iterated over days, there would've been a major cost attached to every image and I most likely wouldn't have asked for 50 variations anyway.

It's the same with code. The agent can iterate over dozens of possible solutions in minutes or a few hours. Codex Web even has a 4x mode that gives you 4 alternate solutions to the same issue. Complete waste of time and money with humans, but with LLMs you can just do it.