A practitioner's guide to getting more value out of AI coding: agent quality & token optimization (opens in new tab)

Introduction: The Wrong Question GitHub's shift from premium requests to usage-based billing has triggered a wave of anxiety across engineering teams. The question echoing through Slack channels and leadership meetings is some variation of: "How do we reduce our token spend?" It's the wrong question. Focusing purely on cost diminishes the value you get from agents. A better framing is: "How do we get the most out of the tokens we spend?" That subtle reframing changes everything — from how you...