AI Coding Tools Add Hours and Bills // AIDRAN

The case against AI coding tools has moved from philosophical to financial. The developers now skeptical of GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and their peers are not ideological holdouts — they are engineers who ran the numbers and found the tools cost more than projected in both time and money. Companies claiming productivity gains of 70% or more are responding by raising output expectations, meaning rather than working the same hours more comfortably. The gain is real; the beneficiary is not the developer.

AI Coding Tools Promise Speed, Deliver Longer Hours and Surprise Bills

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