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Gartner: AI Coding Costs Will Surpass the Average Developer's Salary by 2028 as Token Consumption Surges
On June 24, 2026, Gartner predicted that by 2028 the per-developer cost of AI coding agents will exceed the average developer's salary, driven by consumption-based token pricing and agents that burn tokens on every action ('the meter is always running'). Gartner warns most enterprises underestimate this, that many vendors lack transparency into how tokens are metered and billed, and recommends governance frameworks, context engineering, and routine token-usage reviews. For builders running agent fleets, this reframes cost-per-token and context discipline as a first-class engineering constraint rather than a billing footnote.
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