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The output is still "good enough," but the token burnout rate is through the roof
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token burnout rate is through the roof
In the thread “We 3.5x'd Our Pull Requests with AI: Now We Catch Fewer Bugs”, replying to this comment
Helped: Using Opus or Sonnet for non-complex tasks to save tokens.
Got in the way: Fable's high token consumption for simple work.
… In fact, for our work, which is absolutely not rocket science most of the time, we see little upside in using Fable. The output is still "good enough," but the token burnout rate is through the roof. For many tasks, we stick to Opus, or even Sonnet, and the output is just fine. …