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Vibe Coding2026-05-25 · source-backed
An industry insider reports companies have restructured into small teams burning massive token budgets to rapidly prototype, with roughly 1 in 100 ideas reaching production. One of the first specific cost-per-developer figures for enterprise AI-assisted development. The economics of AI coding are far from settled when you're spending $60K/year on tokens per engineer.
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