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Notes on what AI coding costs.
Short, plain notes on what AI coding now costs, and how a compiler changes the bill.
How to cap your team’s AI coding spend without slowing them down
A hard cap throttles engineers; an open budget burns. Move repeatable work to a flat price and meter the rest.
What AI coding tools actually cost in 2026
The 2026 numbers on AI coding spend, and the structural way to make the bill stop moving.
Why your AI coding bill jumped 25x in 2026
The major AI coding tools moved to token-based billing. Here is why bills jumped, and the flat-price fix.
Slopsquatting: when your AI invents a package that does not exist
AI assistants hallucinate package names and attackers weaponise them. A compiler cannot, because it never invents an API.
How to make AI coding spend predictable without capping your engineers
Usage-based spend swings with usage. Move the heavy work off the meter onto a flat price.