Jul 5, 2026 · 4 minutes to read It stops being all about the vibes when the API bill hits you. Many companies are now discovering that AI can indeed be pricey. One habit that might be driving up your AI bill is comparing models by Each frontier lab has its own tokenizer, which determines how many tokens a body of text is split into. For example, all text in this post so far would’ve been split into 160 tokens for gpt-4o, but that same input would cost you 200 tokens for gpt-4 (1106-preview, gen...
What AI is doing to the jobs of programmers feels very familiar to a lot of us frontend developers – because it has happened to us before. Let’s first look at the transformation of the frontend and agentic coding through the lens of Just like AI is deskilling programming now, JavaScript frameworks have deskilled frontend development in the last decade. As someone who started with HTML/CSS and a bit of PHP, later did Ruby on Rails, and then was frontend team lead of a major Swiss newspaper (Next...
rediculous CEO quote about AI 1 rediculous CEO quote about AI 2 rediculous CEO quote about AI 3 If you had asked me three months ago about these statements, I would have said only someone who’s never built anything non-trivial would believe they’re true. Great for augmenting a developer’s existing workflow, and completions are powerful, but agents replacing developers entirely? No. Absolutely not. Today, I think that AI coding agents can absolutely replace developers. And the reason that I belie...