> The author mentions $54 in costs but the reality is that developers are paid around this much per hour.
Sure, but imagine a situation where you've spent an hour going back and forth with the LLM trying to fix a problem and at the end of it you've only made minimal progress. Now you've spent an hour of your time AND $54 with little to show for it. It's a metric I don't think many people track: the cost of going in circles with an LLM for an extended period of time while burning tokens and still not resolving the problem.
Sure, but imagine a situation where you've spent an hour going back and forth with the LLM trying to fix a problem and at the end of it you've only made minimal progress. Now you've spent an hour of your time AND $54 with little to show for it. It's a metric I don't think many people track: the cost of going in circles with an LLM for an extended period of time while burning tokens and still not resolving the problem.