"Collaborative coding sessions were the fastest and cheapest per hundred committed lines under SWE-chat’s captured-session metrics."
SWE-chat reports median collaborative-session costs of $0.92 and 5.5 minutes per hundred committed lines, compared with higher measured costs and session durations in the human-only and vibe-coded categories. This result supports the productive role of human-agent collaboration under the study's measured time and token-cost metrics.
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