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.
3 of the 24 write-ups here are tagged Chinese AI. Every figure quoted below is in the figures table with the sentence it came from.
Chinese AI agent tools offer a game-changing strategy for independent developers to access a massive pool of 1.6 billion free tokens monthly.
A monthly report that used to take four hours now takes a few minutes.
In July 2026, while indie developers building AI coding products full-time watched their API burn rate climb toward their revenue, a quieter shift in the Chinese developer stack showed a different…