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sbszllr | 10 months ago

The issue with many of these tips is that they require you use to claude code (or codex cli, doesn't matter) to spend way more time in it, feed it more info, generate more outputs --> pay more money to the LLM provider.

I find LLM-based tools helpful, and use them quite regularly but not 20 bucks+, let alone 100+ per month that claude code would require to be used effectively.

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ramoz|10 months ago

Interesting, I have $100 days with Claude Code. Beyond effective.

dist-epoch|10 months ago

> let alone 100+ per month that claude code would require

I find this argument very bizarre. $100 is pay for 1-2 hours of developer time. Doesn't it save at least that much time in a whole month?

nrvn|10 months ago

what happened to the "$5 is just a cup o' coffee" argument? Are we heading towards the everything-for-$100 land?

On a serious note, there is no clear evidence that any of the LLM-based code assistants will contribute to saving developer time. Depends on the phase of the project you are in and on a multitude of factors.

rpastuszak|10 months ago

So sad that people are happy to spend 100$ pd on a tool like this, and we're so unlikely (in general) to pay $5 to an author of an article/blog posts that possibly saved you the same amount of time.

(I'm not judging a specific person here, this is more of a broad commentary regarding our relationship/sense of responsibility/entitlement/lack of empathy when it comes to supporting other people's work when it helps us)

owebmaster|10 months ago

No, it doesn't. If you are still looking for product market fit, it is just cost.

After 2 years of GPT4 release, we can safely say that LLMs don't make finding PMF that much easier nor improve general quality/UX of products, as we still see a general enshittification trend.

If this spending was really game-changing, ChatGPT frontend/apps wouldn't be so bad after so long.