AI Coding Tools: A Bargain for Well-Paid Teams, Costly for Cheap Outsourcing

Whether AI coding tools are 'expensive' depends on salaries: at $60k–120k per engineer, $1000/month for 25–50% productivity gains is a bargain, while low-wage outsourcing teams saw costs balloon.

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