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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Automation

3 of the 49 write-ups here are tagged Automation. 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 Side Hustle: Stop Selling Hours, Start Selling Plans

The most honest numbers I have seen attached to an AI side hustle are small enough that nobody would put them in a headline: one operator, Xiaomin, clears about 3,873 yuan a month generating images…

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Stop Doing Manual DevOps: How I Use /loop and /hook to Automate My Daily Indie Hacker Tasks

As a solo developer shipping products alone, manual DevOps and repetitive data processing tasks are the silent killers of your side-project momentum, but configuring raw AI agents often creates mor…

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When the AI Picks for the Customer, You Become a Supplier

WeChat’s Xiaowei agent went into closed testing this year, and Qwen’s brand agents already have Luckin Coffee and KFC connected to them.

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All 49 write-ups


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