How can people afford to use Claude Code like this‽ Is everyone just playing with it on their employer's dime or what?
VC funding + spending more money on Claude instead of hiring more engineers
Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents
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#22Please review the site design. Between the thin blue lines appearing & disappearing, and the "television static" in the background I gave up attempting to read anything in the first 30 seconds on the site because my eyes were drawn anywhere other than the content.
Appreciate the feedback! Looking into it
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#23How can people afford to use Claude Code like this‽ Is everyone just playing with it on their employer's dime or what?
200 dollars a month goes a long way with claude code
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#24Very cool. And congrats on the launch.
I started to use superset 2 days ago. Which seems similar. It's pretty nice: https://superset.sh
Fyi: here are some things I would like to have for such a tool - notification when an agent is done - each tabs/space has its own terminal, browser, agent - each tab/space runs in a sandbox (eg docker) - each tab/space can run my dev server. But must not conflict with the other dev servers running - each tab/space has a mcp server for the built in browser
Nice to have: - remote access against my machine/tabs - being able to make screenshots
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#25How can people afford to use Claude Code like this‽ Is everyone just playing with it on their employer's dime or what?
I build my own products and services and the effective ROI for paying for a more or less unlimited max Claude Code plan is fairly ridiculously positive.
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#26I have not done much multi-agent development. Trying to understand what problem this solves, surely one can spin up multiple terminal tabs?
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#27This looks great. How do you compare to cmux?
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#28I don’t know how to phrase this without sounding like an arrogant idiot but seriously: what are people actually programming with agents + worktrees + harnesses + tasks + skills + whatnot? Most workflows I see people adopt involve large amounts of infrastructural fluff only to (more) quickly generate what I (anecdotally) have seen is somewhere between code generation of boilerplatish React/laravel/your-fav-framework components for web or native, and niche toy apps for mostly personal use. My very limited usage of agents has been for scanning large (bloated) codebases to get rid of unused code, meaning time consuming and tedious tasks. But it seems the general trend is that programmers just want faster horses?
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#29How can people afford to use Claude Code like this‽ Is everyone just playing with it on their employer's dime or what?
I build my own products and services and the effective ROI for paying for a more or less unlimited max Claude Code plan is fairly ridiculously positive.
Like you make money with them?
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#30How can people afford to use Claude Code like this‽ Is everyone just playing with it on their employer's dime or what?
This uses the CLIs so its using subscription pricing, not token pricing