AI coding tools are powerful. But they’re also wasteful. A tiny helper-function question does not...
AI coding tools are powerful.
But they’re also wasteful.
A tiny helper-function question does not need Claude Sonnet.
A huge architecture review probably does.
That gap costs money.
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