Sentry Startup Spotlight with Ben Vinegar Founder of Modem

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With coding agents, working out the shape in lower-fidelity mock-ups first beats having the agent build it and then fixing the code: it takes fewer tokens and puts you on a better path.

Their wordsWhereas when you're, when you're ripping on just like a lower fidelity mock -ups that might be like 80 % fidelity that kind of tell you the shape, like you, it takes less tokens. The agent takes less time to generate it. It puts you on the better path going forward.
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There is an underserved market for tools that help people understand what is being built, rather than pump out more tokens, though it is hard to market.

Their wordsSo I guess I guess that's my like weird take, which is there's an underserved market for understanding. It is hard to market because it's like you can't really put like a dollar or like a metric on it in the same way that you can tokens.