$260 in tokens and hundreds of coding agents later.
Kilo - Pricing
Pricing for Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the CLI
Code Is Cheap Now, And That Changes Everything | Pere Villega
AI coding agents have made code production nearly free. Drawing on insights from Kent Beck, Paul Ford, and Simon Willison, this post argues that the value has shifted from writing code to defining systems — contracts, invariants, SLAs, and verification.
What AI coding costs you | Tom Wojcik
What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?
Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.
Coding Agents Are Easy, Actually - Kara's Nonsense
Software engineering is here to stay
How coding agents work - Agentic Engineering Patterns
How coding agents work - Agentic Engineering Patterns
How to harness AI
"Coding agents" are complicated but intelligible
Agents get budgets and boundaries - Sensemaker
Microsoft shipped more concrete agent controls while Uber put coding agents on a token budget. The agent story is becoming IT management, not demos.
The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding
Managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code
AI Coding Agent Benchmarks & Leaderboard | Artificial Analysis
We measure real-world performance of coding agents on software engineering tasks, including cost, token usage, and execution time. We compare how performance changes across agents, models, and execution settings.
The Coding Agent Data Deal
On user data control, coding agents as retrievers, and the value of your coding transcripts
The Coding Agent Data Deal
On user data control, coding agents as retrievers, and the value of your coding transcripts
Open Coding Agents: Fast, accessible coding agents that adapt to any repo | Ai2
SERA is the first in our family of Open Coding Agents, achieving state-of-the-art performance at low cost.
The End of No Code - exe.dev blog
Writing custom software used to be expensive. Coding agents changed the math.
A sufficiently detailed spec is code
Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding