It's not about AI token costs. It's about prototyping.

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

It's not about the spending of AI tokens, it's about the potential of prototyping. I like to build things in my free time. Not necessarily products. Not necessarily monetization ideas. Just things I want to exist, things that benefit myself, or maybe others. And I use AI a lot for it. Because it's no longer about writing the best possible code upfront. It's about having a prototype ready, fast, in some kind of MVP state. Then iterating.