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.
9 of the 24 write-ups here are tagged Indie Development. Every figure quoted below is in the figures table with the sentence it came from.
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…
A developer in China’s AI community achieved 5x productivity gains using loop engineering, reducing MVP development time from four prompt tuning sessions to a single command installation.
Microsoft’s evaluation of Kimi K3 landed on a number that should change how you read a pricing page: about 60 percent of the cost difference between models comes from the thinking depth a task requ…
Fable 5, the cheapest option at $9.05 per run, delivers only 41.2% accuracy in React projects.
The agent processes 40-plus podcast channels overnight, transcribed and summarized, ready to read by morning.
MonkeyCode’s free tier includes 900 million tokens, deploys to your own network with 1 command, and ships as open source you can read.
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…
Pi’s system prompt and its 4 tool descriptions come to under 1,000 tokens, which is the whole reason to like it.
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