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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Development Tools

4 of the 24 write-ups here are tagged Development Tools. Every figure quoted below is in the figures table with the sentence it came from.

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…

AI Programming Tool Selection Strategy: From Rapid Prototyping to Long-term Collaboration

A specialized code review agent beat Claude Code on accuracy across 200 real pull requests and 50 open-source repositories while burning about one-ninth the tokens.

Choosing the Right AI Model for Coding: Cost vs. Efficiency

Fable 5, the cheapest option at $9.05 per run, delivers only 41.2% accuracy in React projects.

MonkeyCode: The Open-Source AI Coding Platform With 900 Million Free Tokens

MonkeyCode’s free tier includes 900 million tokens, deploys to your own network with 1 command, and ships as open source you can read.


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