Comment by SV_BubbleTime
20 hours ago
> 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.
20 hours ago
> Pretty easy to hit $100 an hour
I don’t see how that can be true, but if it is…
Either you, or I are definitely use Claude Code incorrectly.
It’s definitely easy with an API key I hit 200$ 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?
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.
It’s not about a single line diff but the same prompts with cursor does not end costing that much
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.
> 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? ;)
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.