Comment by TheFellow

It feels like folks are too focused on the number, and less about the implication. Pick any [$ amount] per [unit time] and you'd have the same discussion. What I think this really means is that if you're not burning tokens at [rate] then you should ask yourself what else you could be doing to maximize the efficacy of the tokens you already burned. Was the prior output any good? Good question. You can burn tokens on a code review, or, you could burn tokens building a QA system that itself, burns tokens. What is the output of the QA system? Feedback to improve the state/quality of the original output. Then, moar tokens burn taking in that feedback and improving (hopefully) the original output; And, now, there is a QA system ready to review again, further the goalpost, and of course - burn more tokens. The point being: You have tokens to burn. Use those tokens to build systems that will use tokens to further your goal. Make the leap from "I burned N tokens getting feedback on my code" to "I burned N + M tokens to build a system that improves itself" and get yourself out of the loop entirely.