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Is $100/Day TOO MUCH to Pay for Your AI Coding Agent? It Could be Worse!

Tracy Lee, Brandon Mathis, and Ben Lesh break down the latest AI hot takes, starting with the leaked Sentry email and the debate over whether $100/day on AI tools is real or even worth worrying about. They dig into why AI hallucinates, how most people trigger it with vague prompts, and why using AI well is quickly becoming a real engineering skill. Along the way they debate juniors vs seniors with AI, why agents often generate code that works but is still messy, and what teams need (reviews, CI, standards) before rolling AI out broadly. They wrap with a standout example from Redis, where a maintainer used AI to replace thousands of lines of C++ with a small, maintainable C implementation, and what that says about the future of language specialist devs. What You Will Learn: AI tool adoption is now table-stakes for engineers and why getting in now matters more than cost-optimizing too early How to frame AI spend versus human time and why meetings are often the bigger hidden cost Why hallucinations happen in practice and how to reduce them with better prompting and verification habits AI literacy as the new core skill including making the model ask clarifying questions, self-review, and using it as a tutor How teams and codebases shift with AI including juniors, seniors generating lots of code fast, tech debt still hurting, and structure choices that help or hurt agents Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:33 Sentry founder email and the $100/day debate 4:04 What leaders actually want: stop penny-pinching, build skill 6:06 Tool caps and why they slow teams down 11:10 Are you late if you are adopting AI tools now 16:14 Sponsor break (This Dot Labs) 16:40 Hallucinations and how to prompt for better reliability 26:54 Do we still need junior engineers in an AI world 32:36 Hot takes: AI as the baseline for real dev work 40:08 Redis maintainer PR: replacing 3900 lines with 300, AI-assisted 48:38 Learning how to learn (and why it matters more now) 52:10 Wrap-up + next week teaser Tracy Lee on Linkedin:   / tracyslee   Ben Lesh on Linkedin:   / blesh   Brandon Mathis on Linkedin:   / mathisbrandon   This Dot Labs Twitter: https://x.com/ThisDotLabs This Dot Media Twitter: https://x.com/ThisDotMedia This Dot Labs Instagram:   / thisdotlabs   This Dot Labs Facebook:   / thisdot   Sponsored by This Dot Labs: https://ai.thisdot.co/