Lukasz Jazwa

Lukasz Jazwa is CTO of Synergy Codes, a 70-person software company specializing in diagramming and workflow tooling, where he leads AI tooling adoption - Claude Code, Cursor, and agentic workflows. He is also co-founder of CodeQA, an on-premise code intelligence platform born from Synergy's own struggle with agents burning tokens on large codebase exploration. He pays the AI bills he talks about — and built the system that shrank them. Based in Wrocław, Poland.

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Right Model, Right Context: Token Economics for AI-Assisted Engineering

AI Coding Summit NYC

Upcoming

Right Model, Right Context: Token Economics for AI-Assisted Engineering

AI coding assistants have quietly become a real line item in engineering budgets - and most teams have no strategy for it, just a bill. The uncomfortable truth: you don't pay for tokens, you pay for tokens that produce no value.

This talk is a practical playbook built on two levers. First, model routing: matching model tiers to task phases - frontier models for planning and review, mid-tier for implementation, the cheapest for mechanical work. Second, context management: why agents that explore large codebases burn premium tokens on searching instead of thinking, and the architectural pattern that fixes it - a code intelligence layer where an expensive model asks questions and a cheap, locally-run system that already knows the codebase answers them.

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