What will happen when AI companies increase the price of tokens?

The code produced will only be understandable by AI. You could use locally hosted LLMs, but it won't be as performant as AI run by big guys. And there is nothing stopping greedy companies implementing some ridiculous pattern that only their model can reasonably work with.

So what you'll do in situation when you can't understand "your" codebase and you have to make changes or fix a bug?

I find it hard to believe that code with unnecessary cruft and repetition is "more suited to the task". I've literally deleted hundreds of unnecessary or unused functions at this point. The only way I can agree is if "more suited" means, "it's wearing multiple suits for no reason".

I would only add one caveat to this:

Code that is organized well and operates coherently in the first place, by an LLM or not, will be easier to iterate on, by an LLM or not.

Your post weeks of pure arrogance. You sound like the bozo’s at Anthropic who made an AI agent for finance and think this is somehow going to provide a huge productivity boost because all they do is a bunch of tick boxing and spreadsheet work.

No, just no.