I don't argue against the fact that codebase complexity increases token consumption on building context. My main point was that there are other factors affecting token consumption beyond just codebase complexity. Some of them may be related to engineering culture (verbose logs, flaky tests, lack of docs, weird hacks all over the place, etc.), some of them are organizational/social.
Sure. A lot of these things tend to go together. Weird hacks is a bad one. Those AI agents love to cheat and if they see highly elaborate hacks in the code, they won't hold back either.
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I don't argue against the fact that codebase complexity increases token consumption on building context. My main point was that there are other factors affecting token consumption beyond just codebase complexity. Some of them may be related to engineering culture (verbose logs, flaky tests, lack of docs, weird hacks all over the place, etc.), some of them are organizational/social.
Sure. A lot of these things tend to go together. Weird hacks is a bad one. Those AI agents love to cheat and if they see highly elaborate hacks in the code, they won't hold back either.