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AI coding economics and speed

April 5, 2026Aakash Gupta, Dr Kareem Carr, Statistics Person, Theo - t3.gg

Aakash Gupta, Dr Kareem Carr, and Theo focus on AI coding reality, from persistent agents and token costs to whether engineers write less code and which coding tools are faster.

In 2026, that's a frontier model on a loop.
Opus 4.6 costs $5 per million input tokens.
software engineers don’t write much code anymore and it’s mostly AI now.
still much slower than T3 Code.
Aakash Gupta
Dr Kareem Carr, Statistics Person
Theo - t3.gg
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