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One engineer at GitHub just shipped a project that was scoped at 2 years for a full team. It took him 14 weeks and about 3 weeks of his own attention. The AI bill came to $120,000. That's roughly $3M of engineering work for the price of a mid-range car. The project was rewriting the engine behind GitHub Copilot into a faster language, 832,378 lines of production code. Agents wrote almost all of it. Works out to 14 cents per line, and code written by hand at a company like GitHub costs dollars…