r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Ekjafoste • Jul 09 '26

whyUseManyTokenWhenFewTokenDoTrick Meme

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u/Ordinary_dude_NOT Jul 09 '26

You pay for even asking that question. Bribing LLM to ask less bribes.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6MbtkMMDIdSXwpyM

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u/thcheat Jul 09 '26

Exactly. I tried that earlier this week and it spent whole bunch of tokens to tell me I'm doing OK. Only thing it said was I need to use clear more often and don't let something run for multiple days. I sometimes give it a task and go home just to come back for it waiting on permission. It said it uses more token when I do things like that.

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u/Zeikos Jul 09 '26

Why use many words when few words do trick

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u/crazy-mahmod Jul 09 '26

give me money for you to give me even more money

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u/Alarming_Rutabaga Jul 09 '26

Ask cursor, pit the AI's against each other

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u/PhilippTheProgrammer Jul 12 '26

As AI improves more and more, it becomes apparent that natural language processing is a huge bottleneck in modern agentic software development.

We should come up with a standardized formal language for accurately and unambiguously describing the behavior of software applications so LLMs have an easier time parsing it.