And Japan isn’t either. They are requiring that by the time you retire you’ll have paid at least 30 years into the pension system or have equivalent financial resources any gap.
We have a subscription at work. They have a CLI agent that works pretty well. Lately I mostly use it with grok, which is actually quite a capable model.
No. Japan certainly doesn’t. If you want to renew your visa you go apply at the local immigration department and they mail you your renewal notice a month or two later. No need to leave the country at all.
It was a long time ago, so I might have the details wrong. I suspect it may have been expats from Korea taking a short trip to Japan to renew their visa, or even folks switching the type of visa they were on.
Agree. Another consideration is that input token costs are effectively quadratic with the number of conversation turns. The minute you get into a long conversation you can see the costs shoot up.
You can get far more gas out of even a $20 plan of you’re careful to break things up into relatively small discrete steps, clear context regularly and give the model plenty of information to work with.
My workflow for bigger features is to write out a plan document and then proceed in smaller implementation steps, reviewing as I go. If I find something odd, I ask the agent why and often that leads to discovering a new dimension to the problem, which in turn is an opportunity to adjust the approach.