Show HN: I nerfed our coding agents on purpose
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Coupling that with additional automated token efficiency techniques has yielded 3x usage for the same spend.
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We still bounce between the tools, but Codex's speed and steerability coupled with performance gains were hard to ignore.
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One of the downsides was that the per token pricing kicked in way sooner.
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This is happening across the board, but we felt it in Codex more acutely.
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We're a startup filled with people who work around the clock and are obsessed with building — naturally our daily bill alone was striking.Luckily we're going after a big mission and speed matters significantly more than marginal token spend on the edges.
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