AI Coding Field Notes

Coding agent pricing comparison: cheapest LLM API for coding, cost per million tokens, from the OpenRouter price list as JSON and CSV. An AI model token price comparison repriced at a real agent mix — 95.6% cached input pricing, 6.5x off list: prompt caching price, cache read price, cache hit share, long context pricing, DeepSeek peak/off-peak.

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AI Development

3 of the 56 write-ups here are tagged AI Development. Every figure quoted below is in the figures table with the sentence it came from.

The figures

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The write-ups

The Real Pitfalls of AI Agent Development: From Code Generation to Functional Verification

AI Agent development faces critical gaps between code generation and functional verification.

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The First Line of Defense in AI Programming: Environment Variable Management

MonkeyCode ships with 900 million free tokens and supports private deployment, which tells you exactly what its users are doing: pointing an AI coding tool at their own keys, on their own infrastru…

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How Chinese Developers Are Using Codex Record & Replay to Streamline Repetitive Workflows

A monthly report that used to take four hours now takes a few minutes.

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