What AI coding costs you | Tom Wojcik

AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.

Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.

The Economics of Using AI to Churn Out Code Are Looking Worse Than Ever

Anthropic updated an estimate for how much developers will spend on its AI coding tool, signaling that the tech is only going to get costlier.

AI vs human code gen report: AI code creates 1.7x more issues

We analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, using CodeRabbit’s structured issue taxonomy and found that AI generated code creates 1.7x more issues.

Perspective: AI demand is inflated, and only Anthropic is being realistic

The main usage metric for artificial intelligence, called tokens, looks explosive on paper, but it may be significantly overstated.

Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower

Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.

y code when ai?

A talk on AI and coding

AI Code

As AI Coding Agents write more code, it's more important than ever that we're intentional about the code it writes.

AI Code Is Producing a Quality Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About

The productivity numbers look great. AI coding tools are everywhere.

Microsoft reports are exposing AI's real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees | Fortune

Companies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier the bill.

I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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AI is writing 90% of the code I was in charge of

AI | 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

84% of respondents are using or planning to use AI tools in their development process, an increase over last year (76%). This year we can see 51% of professional developers use AI tools daily.

AI overuse could spark "brain fry," new research finds

The mental strain associated with AI carries "significant costs," researchers find.

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.

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.