I joined Lovable in January this year. Before that, I used maybe $600 of tokens per month on my coding tasks. Once I started here, a larger scope, a larger project, and the freedom to use as many tokens as a problem warrants brought my individual spend to ~$25K/mo in May and an overall spend of ~$85K since January. Here's what happened when I pushed harder than most, and what I learned along the way. Development process In January 2026, my agentic coding process involved plan mode, permission re...