We burned 40 billion tokens (~$20k) building a harness. Am I crazy?

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Today is the day when everyone can build a mobile app directly on their mobile device. It's finally approved by Apple and available in the App Store . Let me tell you a story about it. 40,000,000,000 tokens. 3 months of work. Zero lines of code written by a human. That is what building >_Fa — my op…