The token efficiency argument only holds for teams paying per API call. Cursor, Copilot, and most tools developers actually use are flat subscription. On a flat monthly fee, there's no economic pressure toward brevity in generated code.

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foltik 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Apparently there’s no economic pressure toward brevity in LLM generated slop comments either.

And no, they’re not flat subscriptions. Use more tokens and your quota is gone faster.

	▲	gpm 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not true with github copilot. Cost is per prompt no matter how many tokens the prompt uses. Which can vary by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude...