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Re:Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's T... by kevindamm on Monday June 30, 2025 @12:20PM (#44425051)
I've usually heard/said it as

  1. Make it
  2. Make it work
  3. Make it work better
(different circumstances have different nuances about what "better" means, it isn't always performance optimization; some do substitute "faster" for "better" here, but I think it loses generality then).
Re:Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's T... by acosmism on Monday June 30, 2025 @11:34PM (#44430314)
i like this version best