Tracking AI inference pricing, task-level cost compression, model performance, open-source
model economics, token efficiency research, and Jevons paradox as an open question.
Minor Bug Fix Cost
Representative agentic coding task, monthly estimate since February 2026: $4.80 in February to $0.82 in May.
Latest Research & Analysis
Dynamic Heuristic Distillation: A Possible Next Step in Effective Token Maxxing
A potential path for lowering inference costs is to let AI systems convert repeated tasks
into monitored heuristics, reserving token-heavy reasoning for novel or uncertain cases.