alt Hacker NewsThey keep forgetting to put "make no mistakes", "think deeply" and "get it right the first time" in their prompts.
When people have no ability to understand what they are doing, they will just rerun it endlessly hoping they get something passable. When that doesn't happen they burn money.
I doubt most of this is from rerunning the same prompts over and over. This token burn is more likely from people using swarms of agents and orchestrators for “efficiency”.
“I’ve got 2 dozen agents churning through the backlog to build this feature that would take one agent an hour to implement.”