[thethimble]

Separately, you have to consider that "wasting tokens spinning" might be acceptable if you're able to run hundreds of thousands of these things in parallel. If even a small subset of them translate to value, then you're far net ahead vs with a strictly manual/human process.

[pjc50]

> hundreds of thousands of these things in parallel

At what cost,. monetary and environmental?

[thethimble]

If the system provides value that is greater than its cost, then paying the cost to gain the value is always worthwhile - regardless of the magnitude of the cost.

As costs drop exponentially (a reasonable expectation for LLMs, etc.) then increasing agent parallelism becomes more and more economically viable over time.

[ahartmetz]

>As costs drop exponentially

Not a reasonable expectation anymore. Moore's Law has been dead for more than a decade and we're getting close to physical limits.