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.

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AI Implementation

6 of the 32 write-ups here are tagged AI Implementation. Every figure quoted below is in the figures table with the sentence it came from.

The figures

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The write-ups

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.

Beyond Token Pricing: How Indie Devs Should Really Evaluate AI Model Costs

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…

Boosting AI Bot Conversion: A Deep Dive into Funnel Data

One reported case moved entry-group conversion from 9.1% to 55.1% by rebuilding an automated onboarding flow around what the funnel data actually showed, rather than around what the team assumed us…

From AI Demo to Product: Loop Engineering for Indie Devs

The agent processes 40-plus podcast channels overnight, transcribed and summarized, ready to read by morning.

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.”

When AI Customer Service Backfired: Klarna’s Case and the Four-Stage Path to Enterprise AI Adoption

Klarna reported $4 million a year in savings and a 99.96 percent conversation engagement rate, the kind of pair of numbers that ends an internal debate before it starts.


All 32 write-ups


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