The fastest finish is not always the most efficient one.

“From personal experience trying out different models, you can definitely see token efficiency on the OpenAI side. But it’s what I like to think of as short-term token efficiency.”

“Yes, I’ll get this immediate task done, but there are so many follow-ups that Fable would have just done, and Astra might have just not done for the sake of completing the task faster.”

“In the long term, I feel like the Anthropic models build you the better codebase, and definitely a more readable one. If you read some of these Astra tests, it’s something else.”

“I think models matter quite a bit for token efficiency, over which user is actually using them.”