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 Programming

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

The figures

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The write-ups

Best Practices for AI Agent Skill Management

Managing AI Agent skills is not merely about tools; it’s about designing workflows to boost your productivity.

Beyond Chat: How Codex Can Automate Your Word/Excel/PPT/PDF Workflows

Codex’s office automation capabilities, which are severely underestimated, can be transformed into powerful document processing agents, as shown by real-world developers, one of whom automated PDF…

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…

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.”

Why Pi’s 1000-Token Agent Engine Needs a Sandbox Before You Touch It

Pi’s system prompt and its 4 tool descriptions come to under 1,000 tokens, which is the whole reason to like it.


All 32 write-ups


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