title: "The AI thinks, the gate decides — how I made LLM code edits deterministic (and cut token usage 42×)" published: true tags: ai, opensource, typescript, llm The AI thinks, the gate decides D-Engine: a deterministic harness that matches coding agents' quality while burning 14–42× fewer token...

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/sergiocorruchaga/the-ai-thinks-the-gate-decides-how-i-made-llm-code-edits-deterministic-and-cut-token-usage-42x-5cbi)

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