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Simon Willison
simonwillison.net
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It was coding agents. Prior to Claude Code and Codex (and the Opus 4.5 / GPT 5.1 models that made those actually work) it was hard to spend more than $50/month on AI tokens, there just wasn't enough useful stuff to do with them
A good coding agent can justify $50/day or more
2026-09-29T05:08:26.566Z