"The year of surgical refactors": $400 in tokens saves $500k in annual costs, says former vibe-code sceptic

Implementing a JSON data query-and-transform language in Go saves on both latency and Kubernetes costs.

Phillip de Wet

Apr 03, 2026 - 3 min read

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