Shipping fast is fun until the meter turns it into a budget conversation. Moving the agents onto an existing plan meant the long, unglamorous runs stopped costing extra — and someone finally read the code the model wrote.
When each run bills, you unconsciously shrink the work: shorter prompts, smaller diffs, no big sweeps. That's the opposite of how agents earn their keep. The most valuable jobs — full-repo test backfills, dependency upgrades, security passes — are precisely the long ones you avoid when a clock is running.
On an existing subscription the calculus flips: a job that takes all night costs the same as one that takes a minute. So the sweeps actually get run, in Cortev's cloud, while the laptop is shut — and the work is finished and reported by morning instead of abandoned at the ten-minute mark.
Fast shipping leaves a specific residue: hardcoded keys, secrets committed by accident, unsafe input handling nobody reviewed — because you skimmed the diff instead of reading it. A security pass is a long, boring job, which is exactly the kind that now runs for free on a plan you already have.
Connect the account you already have, point Cortev at your repos, and let it run while you're somewhere else.
An illustrative scenario of how Cortev is used — a composite, not a named customer, and the figures above are examples rather than audited results. Your own savings depend on your usage and your plan's fair-use limits.