AI coding agents are blowing through budgets — Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic explain how they're managing it
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When engineers only touch code 1% of the time, your cost center shifts from people to tokens — and ungoverned agents will happily set fire to your cloud bill. Treat coding agents like any other high-throughput service: enforce budgets, define which repos and systems they can touch, and make review workflows explicit before scaling usage.
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