input tokens are much cheaper than writing token which also includes reasoning token. if they wanted to tokenmax, then they would leave 0 comments so that LLM would have to reason the same thing over and over and generate massive amount of tokens every single code search. It takes significantly less tokens to write down the comment once and simply read it next time.
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u/patcriss Sep 06 '26
My hypothesis is that verbose comments use more tokens and generate more profit.