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The number that gets quoted from that case study is the token bill, somewhere between €10M and €15M for one week of autonomous agent work. The number that should get quoted is the second half of the sentence, which is that the resulting code was described as nearly unmaintainable. The bill was paid once. The code has to be lived with.
CodeGraph went from launch on 18 January 2026 to roughly 47,000 stars in five months by mapping symbols and call edges locally, with no server and no cloud embedding call. It deserved every one of those stars. It also answers one class of question completely and another class not at all, and the second class is where production breaks.
Repomix is the leader in context packing, with 26,000 stars and 255,000 npm downloads a month, and its tree sitter compression genuinely cuts token count by about 70%. Apply that to 10 million files and you go from three orders of magnitude short of the context window to slightly less than three orders of magnitude short. Every tool in this category publishes a token reduction number. None of them publishes a correctness number.
