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0 pointsSV_BubbleTime8mo ago0 comments

> Pretty easy to hit $100 an hour

I don’t see how that can be true, but if it is…

Either you, or I are definitely use Claude Code incorrectly.

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It’s definitely easy with an API key I hit 200$ in an evening. I didn’t think that could be possible. Horrifying

To be clear, this is a lot of full-scale reading and (re)writing, without any rules, promots, "agents"/code to limit your resource usage, right?

Nobody's asking for $200 in single-line diffs in less than a day - right?

AJ0078mo ago

Right, this is having Claude Code just running as an agent doing a lot of stuff. Also tool use is a big context hog here.

shinycode8mo ago

It’s not about a single line diff but the same prompts with cursor does not end costing that much

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macrolime8mo ago

This is around what what Cursor was costing me with Claude 4 Opus before I switched to Claude Code. Sonnet works fine for some things, but for some projects it spews unusable garbage, unless the specification is so detailed that it's almost the implementation already.

SV_BubbleTimeOP8mo ago

> unless the specification is so detailed that it's almost the implementation already.

You mean… it’s almost exactly like working with interns and jr developers? ;)

macrolime8mo ago

Yeah, it's like an idiot savant intern who has memorized all the API docs in the world, but still somehow struggles to work independently.

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shinycode8mo ago

It’s definitely easy with an API key I hit 200$ in an evening. I didn’t think that could be possible. Horrifying

DANmode8mo ago

To be clear, this is a lot of full-scale reading and (re)writing, without any rules, promots, "agents"/code to limit your resource usage, right?

Nobody's asking for $200 in single-line diffs in less than a day - right?

AJ0078mo ago

Right, this is having Claude Code just running as an agent doing a lot of stuff. Also tool use is a big context hog here.

shinycode8mo ago

It’s not about a single line diff but the same prompts with cursor does not end costing that much

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macrolime8mo ago

SV_BubbleTimeOP8mo ago

> unless the specification is so detailed that it's almost the implementation already.

You mean… it’s almost exactly like working with interns and jr developers? ;)

macrolime8mo ago

Yeah, it's like an idiot savant intern who has memorized all the API docs in the world, but still somehow struggles to work independently.

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