Experts urge cost-per-merged-PR metric for AI coding spend

Agentic coding tasks can consume 10-50x more tokens than simple chat, so per-token pricing makes the most valuable workflows the most expensive. Uber reportedly exhausted its 2026 AI budget by April, and GitHub Copilot moved to metered credits. The article recommends measuring cost per merged pull request and matching model tier to task.

• Kimi K3.1 Pro Open Weights Released2026-11-04
• Uber fulfilled only 4 AI-agent rides last quarter2026-11-04
• Engineer Reflects on a Year of AI Use and Personal AI Policy2026-11-03
• Gartner: open models handle 90% of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost2026-11-03
• Postman accused of silently installing AI plugins, altering Codex config2026-11-03