AI coding agents are blowing through budgets — Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic explain how they're managing it
At Kilo Code, engineers are reading or writing code themselves only about 1% of the time now, according to co-founder Emilie Schario — the rest is agents. That shift is forcing new questions onto dev teams: which systems are safe to hand over, who cleans up when models goof up, how to support multi-model architectures, and whether skyrocketing token bills mean real progress or just burned IT budget.
As far as tech leads from Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic are concerned, it’s a natural — and welcome — evolution as agentic AI becomes embedded into more and more enterprise workflows.
“Unless something's really broken or debugging, 99% of the time engineers are not reading or writing code anymore,” Emilie Schario, co-founder of Kilo Code, said at VB Transform 2026.
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