Tagged #ai-costs
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· Paul Lukic
The $200-a-Week Engineer: AI Spend Caps Have Arrived
Tesla reportedly capped per-engineer AI spend at $200 a week. Uber is tightening limits too. Caps ration the work—cutting context waste is how you keep shipping under one.
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· Paul Lukic
Fable 5 Goes Metered: Every Wasted Token Is Now a Line Item
On July 13, Claude Fable 5 switches from plan limits to usage credits at $10/$50 per million tokens. The habit that costs you most? Agents that read 20 files when 4 would do.
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· Paul Lukic
You're Not Over Budget. You're Over Quota.
Claude Code's weekly cap and Copilot's new per-credit meter punish the same thing: agents that read 20 files when 4 would do. The fix isn't a bigger plan—it's a smaller context.
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· Paul Lukic
Copilot Goes Pay-Per-Token on June 1. Your Context Bloat Is Now a Line Item.
GitHub Copilot switches every paid plan to usage-based AI Credits on 1 June 2026. Token waste that was hidden inside a flat $10/month bill now eats your credit balance in real time. Here's the math, and how a code-graph cuts it by ~80%.
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· Paul Lukic
Context Bloat Is Draining Your AI Tool Budget
Most AI coding agents pull too much code into their context window, inflating token costs by 5x. Here's what that costs and how to fix it.