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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Developer Productivity

3 of the 68 write-ups here are tagged Developer Productivity. Every figure quoted below is in the figures table with the sentence it came from.

The figures

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The write-ups

Bypass Codex Rate Limits: The Local Proxy Path to 70% Cost Savings

If you’re hitting the 5-hour Codex limit like clockwork every day, stop counting minutes.

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Your AI Didn’t Misread Your Code by Accident. You Handed It the Wrong Context.

“If your AI keeps writing bad code, you need a better model.” In each of the rebuilds below, a new model wouldn’t have fixed anything, because the model was reading the wrong thing.

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Why Stripping 80% of System Prompts Actually Improved Claude Code’s Performance

When the Claude Code team decided to slash 80% of their system prompts, most developers expected the model to lose its edge in complex engineering tasks.

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All 68 write-ups


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