One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash

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Reporting on 2B tokens of AI usage and what shapes model selection and cost

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Setting a challenge to spend the whole of September on only one efficient open model felt like a great idea at the time. Turns out not so much in practice. 2B tokens later, here’s how it went.

Here’s the tokens distribution according to AgentsView, one of our Agentic engineering recommendations to keep tabs on AI usage:

The goal was to spend the whole month on GLM 5.3 Flash pictured in teal. Here’s what went well:

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