Get too efficient with AI and you lose the fun, token-burning asides
Elijah_Meeks · x · 2026-08-16
Elijah Meeks observes that once you become really efficient and cost-effective with AI, you lose access to all the fun, weird little asides and navel-gazing that used to eat up so many tokens. The flip side of optimizing for efficiency is losing the space for playful exploration — a take many heavy AI users relate to.
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