I get it but it goes against the grain for me. Isn't it ironic that we have to waste our precious and expensive human brain cycles to think about how to use AI cheaply so that it is not more expensive than us?

In other words I want to spend 100% of my mental capacity in the problem domain for the things AI cannot do for me, like steering, grounding, verification and not for things AI could do.

> In other words I want to spend 100% of my mental capacity in the problem domain for the things AI cannot do for me, like steering, grounding, verification and not for things AI could do.

It sounds like the parent is less talking about this, and more people burning tokens while not getting useful work done.

This is much like how devs got grilled for creating expensive test VMs on AWS. Someone has to pay for all this at the end of the day.

I dunno, using tools and resources effectively is arguably the essence of good engineering.