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Crowberry | 6 months ago

I’ve recently tried out Claude Code for a bit, I’ll make sure to give the suggested approach a go! It sounds like a nice workflow.

But I’m negatively surprised with the amount of money CC costs. Just a simple refactoring cost me about 5min + 15min review and 4usd, had I done it myself it might have taken 15-20min as well.

How much money do you typically spend on features using CC? Nobody seems to mention this

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scastiel|6 months ago

Indeed, switching partially from Cursor to Claude Code increased the bill by a lot! Fortunately I use Claude Code mostly at work and I had no trouble to convince my boss to pay for it. But I’m still not sure how I’ll continue building side projects with Claude Code. Not sure I want to spend $20 each time I want to bootstrap an app in an evening just for fun…

k9294|6 months ago

Why not to subscribe to pro or max? I calculated my CC usage this month (I'm on a Max 200$ plan), it’s close to 2.5k$... Its just crazy to use API at price right now.

dustingetz|6 months ago

the investor bull case in AI is to cannabalize the labor markets at 15% margin, so 1:1 labor:AI budget is where we are headed next - e.g. $100k/100k for a senior dev. The AI share will come out of dev budgets, so expect senior salaries to fall and team sizes to shrink by a lot if this stuff works. Remember we’re in the land grab phase, all subsidized by VCs, but we’re speed running through the stages as and this phase appears to be ending based on twitter VC sentiment. There’s only so many times you can raise another $500M for 9 months of operating cost at -100% gross margin.

fuckaj|6 months ago

What if once the 100k dev jobs are gone the equivalent value in terms of AI is nowhere near that. Say it is 5k instead?

Due to oversupply. First you needed humans who can code. But now you need scalable compute.

Equivalent would be hiring those people to wave a flag infront of a car. They are replaced bt modern cars, but you dont get to receive the flag wavers wage as captured value for long if at all.

edg5000|6 months ago

You either get the 20 EUR/m for Sonnet and 100 for Opus. I used Sonnet and switched to Opus eventually. But Sonnet was also good. For my purposes I don't run out of the token limits, although I can't speak for the future.

stpedgwdgfhgdd|6 months ago

When you start to refactor 100k+ lines code base it adds up even more… Some Docker builds, run the linters and the tests, you quickly exceed $40

theshrike79|6 months ago

This is why you make the linters and tests as quiet as possible. The LLM doesn't need to know every successful test, it just needs know if it passed or not.

viraptor|6 months ago

> had I done it myself it might have taken 15-20min as well.

Could you spend that 15-20min on some other task while this one works in the background?

conradfr|6 months ago

Well the 15 minutes code review are still there.

Crowberry|6 months ago

Not really, or I guess I could if i let it run wild. But I wanted to check what it was doing and had to steer it in other directions sometimes.

I treat it as pair programming with a junior programmer on speed!