[maxglute]

Ignorance. Bad code hygiene and poor prompting. As someone who barely codes, I had a few old vibe coded projects from pre agent days when gemini ide had basically no usage limits that ballooned to multi 1000+ line files with backlog of bugs. I only stopped because dumb models starts breaking down at the point and project was serviceable for my needs. Come agentic coding and models smart enough to fix issues, but codebase is so filthy it does it wildly inefficiently. Like a few prompts would consume my 5 hour quota. Took a few days to get a decend agent.md up and refactor codebase etc and now I'm sipping tokens. I'm sure many people are still in that boat. Many of us literally don't know any best practices and can't tell agents how to behave.

In retrospect, I should have just spend a few days learning the basics, but you don't know what you don't know. And part of me can't help but feel companies aren't exactly prompting agents to be courteous when onboarding newbies because they want people like me to get hooked, and token maxxing on their end helps. I spent few $100 more than I should getting subs/tiers I didn't need, but at the time it was small $$$ for productivity gains from going from 0-1.