> API use is way too expensive

Cry me a river - I never stop hearing how developers think their time is so valuable that no amount of AI use could possibly not be worth it. Yet suddenly, paying for what you use is "too expensive".

I'm getting sick of costs being distorted. It's resulting in dysfunctional methodologies where people are spinning up ridiculous number agents in the background, burning tokens to grind out solutions where a modicum of oversight or direction from a human would result in 10x less compute. At very least the costs should be realised by the people doing this.