ai-coder

Coverage of the tools and agents that write, edit, and debug code alongside developers, from command-line assistants to IDE integrations. Content here digs into how these systems actually work under the hood: token economics, tool schemas, context management, and where per-turn spend really goes. Expect instrumentation-driven analysis, cost-cutting techniques, and honest assessments of what you get for the money when you delegate coding work to a model.

ai-coder, token-cost, llm-cost-optimization, ai-coding-tools, developer-tools

Do You Know What You're Paying For When You Use an AI Coder?

Most of what you pay an AI coder per turn goes to overhead, not actual work. Real instrumentation shows tool schemas alone consume 68% of per-turn costs, and straightforward fixes like lazy-loading cut total session spend by 47%.