It's all about the prompting. Sometimes I burn through tokens on bugs. The key is to not try more than two times on the same bug or reprompt. I've found it's best to roll back and reprompt. But in the grand scheme of things, this is cheaper than paying a human developer to do this. And faster. And the process is probably easier too.
Ok I got Stacks and MKStacks working and I've started vibe coding a LCARS nostr client. A few crashes and hiccups here and there but I'm making progress. It is pretty fun to type a couple sentences and then beep boop here's a website.
I've already burned through about 14,000 sats worth of sonnet tokens through nostr:nprofile1qqsdy27dk8f9qk7qvrm94pkdtus9xtk970jpcp4w48k6cw0khfm06mspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsj08ren and at this rate I feel like I'd probably use 50,000 more sats before getting a decent product. Maybe thats a good deal for a non-coder to bring a custom nostr client to life? I'm just curious to hear others experiences regarding AI token costs to build things. Does that seem reasonable, more or less? nostr:nprofile1qqsfm7l5mygtkeecks5d5qzq4tg9tmlnszxhzxqxqhtf4c8gy5rldyqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmnt9upp55xs nostr:nprofile1qqsykxqyeyx4nhl3jhhqarmf9wv203mzhute8vlpymz5d4esmjcygacppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshslfjd7kOBV nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwv3jhyettwfhhxuewd4jj7lal3ny nostr:nprofile1qqsfev65tsmfgrv69mux65x4c7504wgrzrxgnrzrgj70cnyz9l68hjspz4mhxue69uhkzem8wghxummnw3ezumrpdejqzxthwden5te0dehk7unwdajx2tnwdaehgu339e3k7mgexwks6 nostr:nprofile1qqst03hkj9w04xnzllm2rupxqn0g3s3ud3kx6xu0vtrucyr5nuc8aqgpzamhxue69uhk2cmvd9c8xefwwp6kytmjv4kxz7gpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7mx5k3k
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Great thanks for your perspective. Will keep in mind re: fixing bugs. I am not a developer or someone with lots of extra disposable income so the beauty of the whole thing to me is that I can try to bring an idea to life for fun that I would never even consider or know where to begin otherwise.