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I guess the question the is: can't VScode Copilot do the same for a fixed $20/month? It even has access to all SOTA models like Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT o3
I haven't tried copilot. Mostly because I don't use VSCode, I use jetbrains ides. How do they provide Claude 3.7 for $20/mo with unlimited usage?
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no it's a few hundred lines of python to parse weird and inconsistent HTML into json files and CSV files, and then a sync script that can call the WP API to create all the authors as needed, update the articles, and migrate the images
Plumbing to pipe shit from one sewer to another.
Are they saying Claude needs to do the git interaction in order to work and/or will generate better code if it does?
Surprised that "controlling cost" isn't a section in this post. Here's my attempt. --- If you get a hang of controlling costs, it's much cheaper. If you're exhausting the context window, I would not be surprised if you're seeing high cost. Be aware of the "cache". Tell it to read specific files (and only those!), if you don't, it'll read unnecessary files, or repeatedly read sections of files or even search through f…
>Use Claude to interact with git Are they saying Claude needs to do the git interaction in order to work and/or will generate better code if it does?
The issue with many of these tips is that they require you use to claude code (or codex cli, doesn't matter) to spend way more time in it, feed it more info, generate more outputs --> pay more money to the LLM provider. I find LLM-based tools helpful, and use them quite regularly but not 20 bucks+, let alone 100+ per month that claude code would require to be used effectively.
> let alone 100+ per month that claude code would require I find this argument very bizarre. $100 is pay for 1-2 hours of developer time. Doesn't it save at least that much time in a whole month?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683012
Developer time "saved" indeed ;-)
>Use Claude to interact with git Are they saying Claude needs to do the git interaction in order to work and/or will generate better code if it does?
It doesn’t need to. Its optional.
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Why do you think it's supposed to be cheap? Developers are expensive. Claude doesn't have to be cheap to make software development quicker and cheaper. It just has to be cheaper than you. There are ways to use LLMs cheaply, but it will always be expensive to get the most out of them. In fact, the top end will only get more and more costly as the lengths of tasks AIs can successfully complete grows.
> It just has to be cheaper than you. Not when you need an SWE in order for it to work successfully.
The "ultrathink" thing is pretty funny: > We recommend using the word "think" to trigger extended thinking mode, which gives Claude additional computation time to evaluate alternatives more thoroughly. These specific phrases are mapped directly to increasing levels of thinking budget in the system: "think" I had a poke around and it's not a feature of the Claude model, it's specific to Claude Code. There's a "megathi…
That's awesome, and almost certainly an Unreal Tournament reference (when you chain enough kills in short time it moves through a progression that includes "megakill" and "ultrakill").
Surely Anthropic could do a better job implementing dynamic thinking token budgets.
After spending a couple of hours trying to get aider and plandex to run (and then with Google Gemini 2.5 pro), my conclusion is that these tools have a long way to go until they are usable. The breakage is all over the place. Sure, there is promise, but today I simply can't get them to work reasonably. And my time is expensive.
Claude Code just works. I run it (even in a slightly unsupported way, in a Docker container on my mac) and it works. It does stuff.
PS: what is it with all "modern" tools asking you to "curl somewhere.com/somescript.sh | bash". Seriously? Ship it in a docker container if you can't manage your dependencies.