I estimate reading code costs 2.1x more than writing it

By dylanratcliffe · 2026-08-26 · 4 points · 0 comments

I hate reading agent-generated code and it's not a good use of my time, and I wanted a staistic to quantify by how much. My current estimate is $0.243 for a human to review one changed line and $0.114 in model spend for an agent to produce one benchmark-accepted changed line. Th…

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