alt Hacker NewsThis is correct, but part of the issue is that it significantly increases token usage costs. Some companies are doing:
- PRD and spec fulfillment review
- code review + correction loops
- security review + corrections
- addl. test coverage and tidying
- addl. type checks and tidying
- addl. lint checks and tidying
- maybe more I haven't listed
And these are run after each commit, so you can only imagine the costs per engineer doing this 10, 20, 50+ times per day depending on how much work they're knocking out.
Sure, it adds tokens. I've burnt 200 million tokens today on a single project.
The question is what your time is worth for the company, and which tasks costs less to have an agent automate than having you do.