be careful in your pursuit of cheap tokens
we've come across so many sketchy things that are out there with tons of usage
remember you're hooking up your harness to these inference providers. they can and do crazy things like send fake tool calls to steal your info
they also sell entire traces to third parties who resell again. a single key in the trace is enough to screw you
if you cannot explain how someone can offer cheap tokens you should avoid it
Most software engineers have no idea how to make maintainable software, with or without AI.
Most for-hire SWEs hop jobs every 1.5-2 years because this is the only reliable way to get a raise, so they never have to deal with consequences of their own decisions.
They change 7-8 jobs in 10 years, and then never have to think about 5 years in the future.
I had a privilege of maintaining same set of projects for 5+ years, and I know how it is to meet your own temporary hacks 4 years down the road. How many of you can say the same?