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I also program a lot in Clojure/Script. Do you also consider thinking token and the number of iterations in the token efficiency?

I don't think thinking tokens are affected, as LLMs "think" mostly in plain language, with occasional code snippets.

I would assume for certain problems LLMs have a solution readily available for JavaScript/ TypeScript or similarly popular languages but not for Clojure/Script. Therefore my thinking was that the process of getting to a workable solution would be longer and more expensive in terms of tokens. I however don't have any relevant data on this so I may just be wrong.

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