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Aug 12, 2026
Jeff Escalante (Clerk) on Codex, Agent Costs, T3, and Why Humans Still Need to Review the Code
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Jeff EscalanteGUEST
yeah, um, I did a, I did a fun little project recently where we, um, at least at clerk, we all kind of use subscriptions, um, because that's a good way to get a good value for AI coding.

Jeff EscalanteGUEST
Um, but because of that, we don't have like a company dashboard of like what everybody is using.

Jeff EscalanteGUEST
One, because if subscriptions go away, which I sure hope they don't, but it's certainly possible, what kind of spend difference would we be looking at to support the amount of usage that everybody's after and how scary is that? And two, just general kind of anomaly detection.

Jeff EscalanteGUEST
If somebody goes up a crazy amount in the amount of tokens they're using or drops a precipitous amount, maybe something has gone off the rails.
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Jeff Escalante - Director of Software at Clerk
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Jeff EscalanteGUEST
in the middle of the city and barely knew how to speak Spanish [chuckles] to be honest.

Jeff EscalanteGUEST
But I took, um, I, I enrolled in a software engineering course there, um, because previously I had, I'd sort of been doing science classes.
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