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What AI coding work costs, and why the bill most teams get can't say. The articles are on Medium; start with the first.
- Start here
What did that feature cost? Your AI bill can’t say
One Jira ticket, built and tested by two agentic workers, with the work that produced it stage by stage and what it cost.
- The argument
Your AI coding bill is measuring the wrong thing
Per-seat metering tells you who spent the money. It can’t tell you what the work cost, or why.
- Deep-dive
“What did this ticket cost?” The question your AI tooling can’t answer
Why the cost of one ticket cannot be recovered from a per-seat bill.
- Deep-dive
The skills lottery: why the same AI tool costs your team different amounts
The same coding agent costs and returns different amounts depending on who is prompting it, and a per-seat bill can’t separate hard work from a wandering operator.
- For the budget holder
Your engineering budget is a headcount plan. Your engineering spend isn’t
The budget is denominated in people, but spend now comes in two currencies, people-time and machine usage; a metered price on each piece of work accounts for the machine half.
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