How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality
Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task.
Napalys Klicius
Napalys Klicius is a Software Engineer at GitHub building agentic systems. His career has taken him from model checking to low-level C++ drone systems and static analysis, and more recently to teaching agents how to inspect code without getting lost.
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