$120,000 Token Bill for a 42-Hour AI Port, With a 96.22% Cache Hit Rate
martinwoodward · x · 2026-09-17
martinwoodward discloses the cost of the 42-hour migration: roughly $120,000 in tokens plus engineering time — not free, but a 96.22% input-token cache hit rate helped the economics, still orders of magnitude cheaper than similar efforts in the past. Also: 63% of team interactions were review/testing/CI and challenging decisions — agents wrote the code, engineering judgment didn't go away.
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