Token Roulette

Your agent has $50. Can it ship the ticket first?

Pick a ticket, set five dials, press Run. The same settings can cost three dollars or the whole budget.

Play: 3 minutes, no sign-up

The settings most teams start with, run once on a 5-point ticket

$55.21 spentof $50.00
budgetOver budget

Add cursor pagination to /orders

  1. 1Searched for call sites · 4 hits$4.13
  2. 2Edited orders.controller.ts · +52 −7$10.68
  3. 3Re-sent 1.9M tokens of repo context$20.50
  4. 4Read the stack trace · tweaking pagination.ts$29.88
  5. 5Opened orders.repo.ts and its tests$41.72
  6. 6Re-sent 3.5M tokens of repo context$55.21

💸 $55.21 — budget gone at iteration 6

Total$55.21
Budget$50.00
The card you get to share. This one is from the run above.

Why a game about agent bills

Coding agents are increasingly billed by the token, and the settings you run them with change the bill more than you would guess.

  • On 1 June 2026 GitHub moved all Copilot plans to usage-based billing, charging for input, output and cached tokens. GitHub Blog, 27 Apr 2026; changelog 1 Jun 2026

  • Gartner analyst Nitish Tyagi told The Register that AI coding bills are leaping from $20–100 to $2,000–5,000 per developer per month, with extreme cases reaching $20,000. The Register, 24 Jun 2026

  • Bai, Brynjolfsson, Pentland et al. ('How Do AI Agents Spend Your Money?', arXiv:2604.22750, Apr 2026): agentic coding tasks consume ~1000x more tokens than code reasoning and code chat. arXiv:2604.22750 (v3, 2 Oct 2026)

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