yeah a lot of LLM PRs are pretty good, but still need changes, and still didnt come from my own prompting which would have got them more exactly where I want them, so it's again, I have to put messages on a PR and wait for someone somewhere to see them and act on them. That friction is a huge waste of time if they're just prompting their own robot. I have the same robot right here and I usually use opus 5.x which is usually better than what they're using.
I think it’s perfectly ok to just tell your robot how to get a good pr to a state you like and merge it then. You should of course let folks know that this is the policy, but ultimately if it solves their problem the way you like it and you didn’t have to spend your tokens on it everybody wins…?
i use claude max and ive yet to get even 30% into my quota for it. so as long as that kind of deal lasts i dont think much about tokens.
if i did have to think about tokens I use something like together.ai with an open weight model like glm 5.3 (which ill sometimes use to review a claude change for something intricate). glm 5.x is just very chatty though
