Stop Using Your Most Expensive AI Model to Stamp the Paperwork

AI coding tools are incredible . They are also starting to feel a bit like ordering room service at a five-star hotel. You ask for "one small change," blink twice, and suddenly your token bill is wearing a bow tie. That sounds dramatic, but if you use these tools every day, you know the feeling. Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Copilot, all of it. We are living through this very odd moment where a half-formed thought can turn into a working patch before your coffee cools down. Things that used to