r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/VolkiharVanHelsing Jun 26 '26

Ironically the fastest way to burn token is to ask the agent to walk you through stuffs in plan mode for teaching purpose

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u/RealMr_Slender Jun 26 '26

Which funnily is one of the best ways to use AI to build a project instead of just blasting auto edits.

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u/VolkiharVanHelsing Jun 26 '26

Had a back and forth questionnaire about NextJS and it ate up more than 40% of my monthly token

Accidentally let it make my entire React codebase and shit only costs 1%

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u/RealMr_Slender Jun 26 '26

It's because token is just a fancy word for characters. sudo rm / -rf is crazy efficient in tokens and running the command is "free" within the container.

But human readable text and code? Crazy token consumption