alt Hacker News> even that's fine because output tokens cost ~5x input tokens.
That's assuming you come in under a certain threshold of revisions, and excludes the tokens generated for all the exchanges. The later can be be significant, especially when there are significant issues to correct.
All I can say is give it a try. We can debate hypotheticals all day, but it costs nothing to try and see.
The Paseo harness/orchestrator is doing something right. I switched from TUI after trying it as a candidate for a non-TUI user.
It's not the same behavior as Claude starting a Claude sub-agent.