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The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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I’m no developer, just so some casual scripting for my job, but lines of code being a performance metric is a hilarious notion. Like, the indicator of good code is that it’s efficiently written in a small number of lines. It’s similarly just as easy to waste tokens on nothing of value.
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I wouldn't mind seeing lines of comments and external documentation as metrics. Perhaps as a ratio to functions or sections. I know, requiring it would just lead to crappy documentation, but that's typically better than none at all, and there's a lot of folks out there just too busy with their brilliance to write up what they just coded.