Their ability to burn through tokens non-stop for hours, days or weeks without intervention.

You’re mixing up Open AI for Anthropic.

Anthropic is actually sort of concerned with not burning through cash and charging people a reasonable price. Open AI doesn’t care. I can use Codex CLI all day and not approach any quotas with just my $20 a month ChatGPT subscription.

I treat coding agents like junior developers and never take my hand off the wheel except for boilerplate refactoring.