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by dash2 1 day ago
I think the real punchline was that the value saved was on the order of cents!

> Every single change that touches the data access layer from this point forward now costs significantly less.

> How much of a saving? Assuming Sonnet 5 pricing at the time of writing of $3/MTok, 39.7 cents.

Now consider OpenAI's price drop, and open models, and consider that in the long run tokens will get cheaper. And think that the refactor needs to be human guided at a price of what for a senior developer - $100/hour?

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> I think the real punchline was that the value saved was on the order of cents!

If the agents can read less tokens in the future, and make changes more effectively then this would add up over time.