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Comment by qmmmur

3 months ago

I’m shocked people are signing up to pay even these fees to build presumably CRUD apps. I feel a complete divergence in the profession between people who use this and who don’t.

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thedevilslawyer  3 months ago

A whole codebase of 100k lines (~1M tokens) for ~a dollar. Would like to understand why would signing up for this be shocking?

  • rowanG077  3 months ago

    That's really misrepresenting how it works. Most lines will be written, re-written again and adjusted multiple times. Yesterday I did approx 5 hours of peer-coding with claude 4 opus. And I have these stats:

    Total tokens in: 3,644,200 Total tokens out: 92,349

    And of that only approx 2.3k lines where actually commited for PRs.

    • simonw  3 months ago

      I calculate that as $61.59 https://www.llm-prices.com/#it=3644200&ot=92349&ic=15&oc=75

      So that's about $12/hour, or 2.6 cents per line of finished code.

      Still pretty cheap! Very few unassisted human programmers can churn out 2300/(5 * 60) = 7.6 lines of code per minute consistently over a five hour time span.

      That said, I think Claude Code, while impressive, is incredibly quick to burn through tokens. I still mostly use copy-and-paste info Claude or ChatGPT as my main AI-assisted workflow which keeps me in more control and spends a ton less tokens.

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    • 0points  3 months ago

      There are code generators for CRUD. You could be a 10x AI programmer without AI if the measure is how fast you bang out CRUDs.