AI Coding Field Notes

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.

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Cost Savings

5 of the 24 write-ups here are tagged Cost Savings. Every figure quoted below is in the figures table with the sentence it came from.

How Chinese AI Agent Tools Leverage 1.6 Billion Free Tokens

Chinese AI agent tools offer a game-changing strategy for independent developers to access a massive pool of 1.6 billion free tokens monthly.

The Cost-Effective Guide to Using Open Code Review for AI Programming Tools

Open Code Review is an open-source review tool built for AI-assisted development, and in benchmark tests spanning 200 real pull requests across 50 open-source repositories it scored higher on both…

1.6 Billion Free Tokens Is a Compression Ratio, Not a Strategy

OmniRoute aggregates 237 providers and advertises roughly 1.6 billion free tokens a month, and that figure is arithmetic rather than a promotion, because the RTK+Caveman layer compresses 10,000 tok…

The AI Branding Revolution: How Indie Developers Are Ditching Design Costs with AI

Chris launched WiseMindAI last year and came out of a single session with Miora’s brand visual template holding more than ten finished assets, covering color schemes, typography and social graphics…

The Hidden Costs of GPT-5.6 Model Selection: A Developer’s Real-World Guide

“Choosing the right GPT-5.6 model for your business is more about avoiding cost overruns than just picking the cheapest option.”


All 24 write-ups