The other angle here is that it's very easy to waste a ton of time and tokens with cheap models. Or you can more slowly dig yourself a hole with the SOTA models. But either way, and even with 1M tokens of context - things spiral at some point. It's just a question of whether you can get off the tracks with a working widget. It's always frustrating to know that "resetting" the environment is just handing over some free tokens to [model-provider-here] to recontextualize itself. I feel like it's the ultimate Office Space hack, likely unintentional, but really helps drive home the point of how unreliable all these offerings are.
