Your docs aren't burning your tokens — your tooling is (opens in new tab)

📝 Originally on my blog → People keep asking me the same thing about running projects with PDLC: with all those docs — PRD, design, review at every step — aren't you burning tokens like crazy? It's a fair question. The process is broken into fine-grained stages, each leaving an artifact behind, and that does look more expensive than just "letting the AI write the code." But I'd argue you can't put the token bill on the docs. Let me put the conclusion up front. First: having lots of docs and b...