From Free Hand-Coding to Burning Tokens: AI Reshapes Dev Costs
jonathan_wilke · x · 2026-08-03
The author highlights a paradigm shift brought by AI coding: developers used to bootstrap ideas for free using their skills and editors, but now "vibe-coding" without technical skills requires spending heavily on tokens.
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