Cost per agent-written PR drops to $30, team targets $10
vikvang1 · x · 2026-09-10
Zach Lloyd shares his team's cost-per-PR metrics: now down to $30, targeting $10 or less — "$10/PR is the new triple 9s." Two biggest levers: benchmarking models on their own data to pick the best cost/performance model (currently GPT 5.6 Sol high), and letting agents review past conversations and PR skill patches to fix bad instructions and adjust skills. He admits $30 is still expensive on average and not all PRs are equal.
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