Field notes on AI coding agents — what they cost, where they break, what shipped. Every published figure (prices, percentages, multiples, token counts and durations) as JSON and CSV, each row carrying the sentence it came from.
4 of the 24 write-ups here are tagged AI Programming. Every figure quoted below is in the figures table with the sentence it came from.
Codex’s office automation capabilities, which are severely underestimated, can be transformed into powerful document processing agents, as shown by real-world developers, one of whom automated PDF…
MonkeyCode ships with 900 million free tokens and supports private deployment, which tells you exactly what its users are doing: pointing an AI coding tool at their own keys, on their own infrastru…
“Choosing the right GPT-5.6 model for your business is more about avoiding cost overruns than just picking the cheapest option.”
Pi’s system prompt and its 4 tool descriptions come to under 1,000 tokens, which is the whole reason to like it.