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technology1 month ago•3 min saved

OpenAI’s AI coding agents push researchers to spend thousands daily on tokens

OpenAI disclosed that researchers’ use of AI coding agents has surged, with the median daily token spend surpassing $600 and top users burning through more than $7,000 worth of tokens per day (as of mid‑August). The costs are based on inferred API prices and reflect how coding agents are accelerating development, debugging, and experimentation, helping OpenAI pursue a goal of an automated research intern by 2028 while highlighting concerns about cost and productivity in token-heavy workflows.

via Business Insider|

#ai-coding #automation #coding-agents

technology5 months ago•75 min saved

The AI price split: why the middle market is disappearing

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 pricing (about $5 input, $30 output per million tokens) and DeepSeek’s open-weight V4-Pro/Flash offerings have created a two-cluster AI market, widening the cost gap between a closed, vendor-managed product and cheaper, open infrastructure. The once-smooth price-performance curve now shows a thinning middle, forcing developers to route workloads across the high-end integrated stack and the lower-cost open-weight stack, and reshaping how AI agents and coding assistants are built and deployed.

via The New Stack|

#ai-pricing #coding-agents #deepseek

technology8 months ago•19 min saved

Ten Lessons from Burning Out with AI Coding Agents

Benj Edwards chronicles two months of experimenting with Claude Code, Claude Opus, and Codex to prototype 50+ projects, concluding that AI coding agents are powerful tools that amplify human skill but cannot replace experience: models are brittle outside their training data, true novelty is hard, the last 10% requires human polish, feature creep can derail projects, AGI isn’t here yet, speed isn’t instant, and users may end up busier—so these tools should be seen as amplifiers of human ideas, used with discipline, solid architecture, and careful documentation.

via Ars Technica|

#ai #burnout #coding-agents