The first time you trim an eval because it costs too much to run, you have started letting the pricing model design your agent.
The problem with token pricing for AI is not magnitude — tokens aren't expensive in aggregate, by knowledge-work standards. The problem is that the unit
A post hit the HN front page this morning titled "I'm going back to writing code by hand". It documents archiving seven months of vibe-coded work on a Kubernetes GPU TUI called k10s and rewriting from scratch. 75 points, 31 comments in the first hour. The
