[lowsong]

> Reviews are billed on token usage and generally average $15–25, scaling with PR size and complexity.

You've got to be completely insane to use AI coding tools at this point.

This is the subsidised cost to get users to use it, it could trivially end up ten times this amount. Plus, you've got the ultimate perverse incentive where the company that is selling you the model time to create the PRs is also selling you the review of the same PR.

[rorychatt]

The bet is that compute gets cheap enough before the crunch that it won't matter. You should model it at 10x - but you also need to factor in NPV and opportunity cost. Even if pricing spikes later, the value extracted at today's rates might still put you ahead overall.

The relevant comparison for most enterprise isn't whether $15/PR is subsidised - it's whether it beats the alternative. For most shops that's cheap offshore labour plus the principal engineer time spent reviewing it, managing it, and fixing what got merged anyway. Most enterprise code is trivial CRUD - if the LLM generates it and reviews it to an equivalent standard, you're already ahead.

[slopinthebag]

Nah, you're insane if you totally change your workflow to the point where you're reliant on them and your skills atrophy though.

[MattDamonSpace]

Depends on the skills, I can’t read assembly

[eddiekm]

you dont pay to compile to assembly either