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Token Maxxing Is Over and Here Is What Comes Next

Token Maxxing Is Over and Here Is What Comes Next

Pepijn Senders, a principal engineer and former AI enablement lead at HelloFresh, explains how his team rebuilt a banking platform in six months with about 800,000 lines of code, mostly written by Sonnet, and why choosing a model that keeps developers involved matters more than raw autonomy. He covers measuring AI ROI through token spend versus output, keeping humans in control of code, the risks of agent recommendations, team refinement sessions, prompt word effects, and a meta harness built on Claude Code.

Benchmarking Coding Agents on New vs Legacy Codebases — Denys Linkov, Wisedocs

Benchmarking Coding Agents on New vs Legacy Codebases — Denys Linkov, Wisedocs

Denys Linkov details Wisedocs' journey of refactoring a complex, distributed ML pipeline into a monorepo, benchmarking the process against evolving AI coding tools. He honestly audits whether the six-month effort was justified, or if waiting for more advanced AI would have been better, ultimately concluding that the significant social and technical benefits made the refactor a successful strategic move despite current LLM limitations.