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 Token Optimization. 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.
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…
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…