Comment by kingstnap

It's even more strange how its not obvious to someone who uses codex extensively daily.

The rate limiting step is the LLM going down stupid rabbit holes or overthinking hard and getting decision paralysis.

The only time raw speed really matters is if you are trying to add many many lines of new code. But if you are doing that at token limiting rates you are going to be approaching the singularity of AI slop codebase in no time.