ci-costs

#ci-costs

@techtalkjp: You can probably build a software factory in about a week. Once you're confident it's reliable, take it to production. Output goes up 10x. But at the same time, token costs and CI costs also go 10x. If revenue doesn't change as a result, then you've just made costs 10x higher, meaning productivity in the true sense drops to 1/10...

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-18 Cached

A reflection on the economics of the AI coding era: building a software factory in one week and taking it to production can boost output 10x, but token costs and CI costs also rise 10x — so if revenue doesn't increase, real productivity effectively drops to 1/10.

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