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wg0 • today at 11:20 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Noobs are burning tokens like "make me an app that does this" whereas an experienced engineer would go with certain language, framework and architecture in mind.


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Jeremy1026 • today at 1:46 PM

How exactly does specifying the language, framework, and architecture in advance save a meaningful amount of tokens? I'd expect saying "make me an app" and "make me an app using Swift and SwiftUI" would be pretty close in terms of token usage. You save maybe one look up by the LLM for "what is the preferred language for writing an application for iOS?".

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