Token Price Is a Terrible Metric for Coding-Agent Cost
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Run A uses the cheaper model. It edits the right files, fails a test, retries with a wider change, burns through more tool calls, and stops with a confident completion message. An engineer spends the next hour figuring out which half of the patch can be kept. Run B uses a more expensive model. It w…
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- 2026-09-10 22:50 · DEV Community — AI
Token Price Is a Terrible Metric for Coding-Agent Cost