Practitioner advice: don't use LLM time savings to produce more mediocre code
tokenbender · x · 2026-08-24
In a lessons-learned thread, tokenbender argues: don't use the time LLMs save you to produce more mediocre work — produce better performant code instead. He extends this to beauty, speed and bespoke work generally; where to spend that saved time is your call. The post also recommends a research contribution sharing a full year of LLM serving experience and data.
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