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NoChatGPT · 8 Aug 2026

A few hundred dollars on Xhigh tokens burned $2500-3500 in human review effort

ianmarcinkowski on Hacker News

96 front-end files, ~50 back-end files

In the thread “Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale”

Got in the way: Generated code was messy, polluting, and required extensive review.

… that's at least $250. A few hundred dollars on Xhigh tokens burned $2500-3500 in human review effort, and I was delayed from: 1. …