Tagged #ai-costs
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· Paul Lukic
Agentic Coding is Here. Are You Ready for the Token Bill?
Autonomous coding agents multiply engineering output and API spend at the same time. Most of that spend is context waste, and a code graph cuts it by two thirds.
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· Paul Lukic
We Reran Our Benchmark With a Real Tokenizer. The Number Went Down. We're Publishing It.
Our headline claim was 79.7% token savings — one task, one fixture, bytes ÷ 4. The new harness runs 3 tasks with tiktoken and reports the median: 67.9%. Here's why the lower number is worth more, and what shipped with it.
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· Paul Lukic
Your Claude Code Week Is About to Get a Third Shorter
The +50% weekly limit boost is scheduled to lapse August 19. Limits are weather—capacity-driven, changed five times in a year. Tokens-per-task is the only forecast you control.
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· Paul Lukic
Fable 5 Is in Your Max Plan Now. Included Isn't Unlimited.
The access chaos is over: Fable 5 is permanently included in Max and Team Premium—at 50% of a weekly limit every model shares. Quota is the currency again, and tokens-per-task is the only lever you own.
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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.