The flip side of AI ingenuity (DeepMind, 2020)

This has aged well. Paradoxically, the more capable AI gets, the more important specification becomes (or costly lack of it becomes), and the more time you spend planning and iterating on intent before you let an agent act.

Tokens and code might be cheap, but we are moving closer and closer to where we let AI operate overnight or where we want agents to operate within our actual environments in real time. The tokens or actions in these instances, have higher costs.