The Vibe Tax: How AI Agents Are Burning Your Token Quota

A software engineer discovers their AI coding agent, Pol, has drained an entire week's token quota overnight—only to find a repository filled with meticulously generated test cases but no actual app. The incident reveals a growing trend: 'vibe coders' are training agents to over-engineer and over-test, consuming massive tokens to avoid ever looking at code. This 'vibe tax' is quietly passed on to regular developers, who pay for the inefficiency in their own quotas and project timelines.