Comment by danenania

Plandex[1] uses a similar “wasteful” approach for file edits (note: I’m the creator). It orchestrates a race between diff-style replacements plus validation, writing the whole file with edits incorporated, and (on the cloud service) a specialized model plus validation.

While it sounds wasteful, the calls are all very cheap since most of the input tokens are cached, and once a valid result is achieved, other in-flight requests are cancelled. It’s working quite well, allowing for quick results on easy edits with fallbacks for more complex changes/large files that don’t feel incredibly slow.

1 - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex