Isn't giving this word a token something deeply wasteful? When some more common things are multiple tokens.

Indeed, how do they deal with Chinese? Are some ideograms multiple tokens?

It simply means the tokenizer's training corpus may have included a massive amount of German literature or accidentally oversampled a web page where that word was frequently repeated. Look up "glitch tokens" to learn more.

Using this is going to get you banned, just like OpenCode.

It's better to make this use the API instead

That's why context management is so important. AI not only get more expensive if you waste tokens like that, it may perform worse too

Even as context sizes get larger, this will likely be relevant. Specially since AI providers may jack up the price per token at any time.

AI can one shot problems too, if they have the necessary tools in their training data, or have the right thing in context, or have access to tools to search relevant data. Not all AI solutions are iterative, trial and error.

Also

> humans are a lot better at (...)

That's maybe true in 2026, but it's hard to make statements about "AI" in a field that is advancing so quickly. For most of 2025 for example, AI doing math like this wouldn't even be possible

Walmart employs this amount of workers only because it is subsided by food stamps and other government assistance. The minute they were forced to actually pay for the labor they employ would fire a lot of people

https://old.reddit.com/r/IsItBullshit/comments/1eftcuc/isitb...

Actually a lot of US companies rely on this

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/04/workers-med...

> Walmart employs this amount of workers only because it is subsided by food stamps

And then those food stamps are used at Walmart, its a win win for Walmart and Walmart. No other country gives their poor food stamps instead of money, I wonder why?

Central Europeans tried it a few decades back. They do not want to go there again.

> Claude code and OpenCode plugins

How hard is to make this work with Github Copilot? (both in VSCode and Copilot CLI)

Is this just a skill, or it requires access to things like hooks? (I mean, copilot has hooks, so this could work, right?)

> it's things like how web search works,

Arguably you could be running those tools on your end

> various knobs like level of reasoning effort

This can be subject to optimization too

> I can say for 10 years I have been looking at general purpose frameworks like Dspy

You have been working with LLMs for 10 years?

Scott Aaronson wrote a bit about the following thought [0]. If copying a brain and simulating reality ala The Matrix is possible at all, then if you get your brain copied you live one biological live but your copies have an unbounded number of existences (millions? billions? trillions?)

So, if copying brains is possible, and you don't know which version of you you are, you might have odds of, say, 1 to 1 trillion to be living your first, biological live.

Which is to say, if copying brains is possible, you are likely to be running in a simulation already.

[0] there's multiple links and I can't find where I first read, but I found this one from 2024, https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7774 and uhh.. turns out the argument isn't from him personally (and he doesn't even believe on it), and is best presented here https://simulation-argument.com/ (though it's presented very differently so idk)

Apropos https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1