Comment by lelanthran
4 days ago
I'll bet the other way: the plan is not cost effective unless you are coding, and even the most junior developer, so green they almost need mowing, are going to throw the agents into a loop.
I can not imagine some shelling out $200/month and then using that product lightly.
> I can not imagine some shelling out $200/month and then using that product lightly.
The people paying for the plan are not the same people using it.
Of 6 people I have data on the $200/plan only 2 regularly use more than $400 value.
> I'll bet the other way: the plan is not cost effective unless you are coding
The person I've personally seen use the most tokens isn't a coder. They do the "second brain" thing and wow it uses a lot of tokens.
They believe in the value, and TBH I've seen them do some pretty interesting and impressive things with it.
> the most junior developer, so green they almost need mowing, are going to throw the agents into a loop
I think this is also true.
But loops actually hit the cache a lot and most people who are calculating the value they are getting from a subscription aren't taking this into account.
SemiAnalysis published a snippet of their analysis, and they believe their tokens are an effective price of $0.99/million, rather than $20/million the naive pricing calculation would give you.