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tomjakubowskiyesterday at 10:29 PM1 replyview on HN

The second way produces more billable output tokens. Worse, when you feed that code back into the LLM service, the extra whitespace counts as input tokens.


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torginusyesterday at 10:44 PM

an LF is 1 character, just like a space. Its just looks bigger to our puny human brains.