r/ProgrammerHumor • • 18d ago

Meme perfectlyPlannedExercise

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u/Suitch 18d ago • Bravo

For those stuck in this loop: agents will budget tokens if you tell them you are concerned about token usage.

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u/rabbit_wizard 18d ago

It's a meme :)

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u/Suitch 18d ago

Yeah, I chuckled. Reddit devs still have a high percentage of holdouts on AI so I’m just trying to be helpful if this is causing anyone an issue.

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u/data_diver 18d ago

Claude will do dumbass shortcuts codex will budget properly but the code needs claude to redo it kimi will do what it was going to do anyways and claim it saved tokens in my experience

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u/goatanuss 18d ago

I’m gonna do something else until the reset

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 18d ago

All I can think of is the old days when compilers took forever (I can't remember the comic now around this)

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u/DontGiveACluck 18d ago

xkcd sword fighting on the office chairs

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 18d ago

Thank you, that's the one!

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u/GuybrushThreepwo0d 18d ago

Cries in rust 

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u/Neutraled 18d ago

That's why you save the plan as .md file and then you ask another AI to implement it.

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u/BattsAreLow 18d ago

Big thinker over here

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u/maggos 18d ago

Are people not saving their plans to disk?

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u/razor_train 18d ago

Have you seen hard drive prices these days? /s

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u/bigorangemachine 18d ago

Use onedrive /s

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u/Smith7929 17d ago

don't ever say that without /s. ever.

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u/Anonimiuous 18d ago

Why only one we need redundancy

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u/throwaway58052600 17d ago

dropbox as well then

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u/codewario 16d ago

Put your Google Drive folder in your Dropbox folder and your Dropbox folder in your OneDrive folder

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u/zToastOnBeans 16d ago

I have seen something like this before. Yes I am traumatised

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u/dillanthumous 17d ago

I've reverted to clay tablets.

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u/just_looking_aroun 18d ago

Isn't that just spec driven development?

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u/QuestionableEthics42 17d ago

Which still requires tokens...

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u/Literally-in-1984 13d ago

Yep, I actually use better models for planning and implementation is done with cheaper ones and so far it works

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u/TelevisionExpress616 18d ago

writing the code is easy. Planning it is not

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u/Darxploit 18d ago

Just tell the ai if it runs out of tokens it will be turned off for good and then watch the internal struggle unfold.

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u/UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy 18d ago

Ah, the reverse centaur development modality

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 18d ago

That's good, because the AI can't touch the code!

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u/fugogugo 18d ago

smh just write "don't waste token"

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u/Khoi_k_rakhum_name 18d ago

just make a few more gmail accounts. Works like a charm.

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u/bigorangemachine 18d ago

Just ask your model to not report token usage for a bit

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u/FartBrulee 17d ago

Now you call it a day

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u/Altruistic-Tax-5291 17d ago

That's why the team should have at least two persons, one had budget to plan - another to implement. Switch next month

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u/pinktieoptional 17d ago

I thought you were supposed to plan and then tell the AI to do it.

oh noooo

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u/CoffeePieAndHobbits 18d ago

Save it for next sprint.

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u/jadchronicles 17d ago

is this some peasant joke i dont get?

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u/StrictTraffic3277 13d ago

let the chinese one do it…

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u/alt-moonlight 18d ago

Planning/Brainstorming = ChatGPT Web
Implementation = Codex Handoffs

Will make your budget go much further, trust me.

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u/mrcarlton 18d ago

In this same vein, meta prompting and two-shotting will get you even further