How Much I Spend on AI Agents as a Software Engineer (And Is It Worth It?)

In this video we'll break down how much I spend on AI agents each month as a software engineer and whether I think it's worth it / sustainable.

Original blog post with all links, images, and widgets: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-07_how-much-i-spend-on-ai-agents

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Chapters

00:00 - Intro
01:00 - How much I spend on AI each month
02:15 - What I spend AI tokens on
04:05 - Is it worth it? 

Links:

- How to Balance Speed, Quality, and Mental Overhead in Agentic Engineering - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLf5LgSqLM8
- Why High-Level Rust Wins Over Other High-Level Languages for Agentic Engineering - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcumBQrO-2A
- 9 Parallel AI Agents That Review My Code (Claude Code Setup) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGmMItyRaRM

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