Dev burns $2,500 a day in tokens, still gets bad code

Developer zeeg says he burned up to $2,500 a day in tokens on AI coding tools yet still got mediocre code. Others argue agents slow down because of poor code quality, not the agents themselves.

2026-09-12 ~ 2026-09-12 · 2 related posts

• Rebuttal: Agents Got Slower Because the Code Was Bad, More Tokens Didn't Help — zeeg · 2026-09-12
• Dev says he burned $2,500/day in tokens for 'mildly better but still shitty' AI code — zeeg · 2026-09-12