Comment by ronsor

1 day ago

$6000 of usage in three days???

Makes me think they're not using anthropic directly but rather any downstream provider. Pretty much everyone has broken caching for anthropic models, which can make requests a couple dozen times more expensive for long contexts.

I did manage to blow through about 1k in a day once doing this, so I can see how one might reach 6k with broken caching + heavy workloads.

For comparison: What cost me me $1k via openrouter would have cost me maybe the weekly allowance of a claude max x20 subscription with proper caching (so like $50 instead). Don't use credits on claude by the way. That's another ripoff (just get more subscriptions).

You really can screw this up and pay x20 what you could have.

  • Nope, using anthropic directly. But you're right, rewriting history busts cache and it gets expensive really fast.

Crazy to think that people in some places in the world work for $2 per day. Jailbraking fable is economically equivalent to the labor of a thousand people.

  • Indeed, it’s also crazy to think that some people vaporize tin pellets in order to etch nanometer scale drawings on silicon crystals while others make mud pies. I think that disparity is even bigger.

  • Wait until you hear how many families could survive on the food you throw away

    • Yeah but that's a distribution problem, not a production one. The starving Africans line didn't work on me as a kid.

      (tongue firmly in cheek)

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    • That's a bit of a miss, I don't throw away much. Restaurants and supermarkets OTOH... I understand the attempt to make me feel bad though, it would make me think I'm complicit, and shouldn't say things like that.

It's high but totally achievable with "loop" style harnesses or lots of parallel subagents/agent teams.