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First Token Is a Vanity Metric

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First token is a vanity metric, and I burned too many evenings treating a prompt box like a demo. The first fifteen minutes of an AI coding tool are logistics, not conversation, even when the UI insists otherwise. If a patch never lands on a failing test, that chat was theater rather than engineeri…

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  1. 2026-09-20 11:27 · DEV Community — AI
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