MIT Team Reveals Real AI Coding Costs: Up to $70k Per Month

Chris Rackauckas of Concentrate AI revealed that his team's agent coding workflow would cost about $40k/month on API pricing, with total AI coding bills around $70k/month, arguing that $400 frontier-model subscriptions are unsustainable and prompting evaluation of open-source alternatives.

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