# The blank-check AI coding era is dead. Here’s what comes next.

> Source: <https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-copilot-token-budgets/>
> Published: 2026-08-06 17:29:08+00:00

Microsoft spent the first phase of the AI coding boom pushing its engineers to use the tools. Now it wants

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