Comment by PretzelPirate
21 days ago
> Cline very visibly displays the ongoing cost of the task
LLMs are now being positioned as "let them work autonomously in the background" which means no one will be watching the cost in real time.
Perhaps I can set limits on how much money each task is worth, but very few would estimate that properly.
> LLMs are now being positioned as "let them work autonomously in the background"
The only people who believe this level of AI marketing are the people who haven't yet used the tools.
> which means no one will be watching the cost in real time.
Maybe some day there's an agentic coding tool that goes off into the weeds and runs for days doing meaningless tasks until someone catches it and does a Ctrl-C, but the tools I've used are more likely to stop short of the goal than to continue crunching indefinitely.
Regardless, it seems like a common experience for first-timers to try a light task and then realize they've spent $3, instantly setting expectations for how easy it is to run up a large bill if you're not careful.