Eli 14 just let you pick your bugs per month

Eli 14 released a feature that lets you set a monthly bug budget. You type something like "I want 20 bugs this month" and the system stops trying to fix them once you hit that number. It's a simple toggle — but it changes how you think about the model.

The way this works is that the model is now being told to stop. Before, the default was "fix everything." Now you can say, "leave the edge cases alone, I'm the one who has to read them anyway." It's the kind of thing that only makes sense once you've been burned by a model that over-fixes and introduces regressions.

Eli 14 is a coding model. The bug budget feature is one of the early signals that these tools are moving past the "fix everything" phase into the phase where you're actually choosing what the model does and doesn't touch. That's the difference between a code monkey and a tool you trust with real code.

Why this matters for us: If you're a brown developer grinding side work or a one-person shop, you need to know how to keep the model from breaking the parts you actually care about — and this is one way to do it without writing a custom prompt for every file.