Has anyone tried Claude Code with Vertex/Bedrock instead? How does it compare in terms of pricing?
A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
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Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#242Tangential, but I don't want to use LLMs for writing code because it's one of the things I enjoy the most in life, but it's feeling that I'm going to need to have to to get ready for the next years of my career. I've had some experiences with Claude that have seriously impressed me, but it takes away the fun that I've found in my jobs since I was in middle school writing small programs. Does anyone have advice for ma…
> I don't want to use LLMs for writing code because it's one of the things I enjoy the most in life I think LLM's are really good for the "drudge work" when you're coding. I always say it's excellent for things where the actual task is easy but the bottleneck is how fast you can type. As an example I had a project where I was previously extracting all strings in the UI into an object. For a number of reasons I wanted…
Exactly. This is the use case that companies should be improving. The AGI marketing hype is a distraction.
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#243Tangential, but I don't want to use LLMs for writing code because it's one of the things I enjoy the most in life, but it's feeling that I'm going to need to have to to get ready for the next years of my career. I've had some experiences with Claude that have seriously impressed me, but it takes away the fun that I've found in my jobs since I was in middle school writing small programs. Does anyone have advice for ma…
Do you use compilers? Linker loaders? Web bundlers? Linters and formatters? Code gen for or from schema? Image editors? Memory safe or garbage collected languages? Then you already use levers to build code. LLMs are a new kind of tool. They’re weird and probabilistic and only sometimes useful. We don’t yet know quite how and when to use them. But they seem like one more lever for us to wield.
I think the probabilistic nature is a huge divider. It requires a complete different way of working and it's understandable that people have trouble switching from one to the other (easier for experienced devs, in my experience, but still makes you switch to code reviewer mode too often).
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#244I'm curious whether anyone's actually using Claude code successfully. I tried it on release and found it negative value for tasks other than spinning up generic web projects. For existing codebases of even a moderate size, it burns through cash to write code that is always slightly wrong and requires more tuning than writing it myself.
Just to throw my experience in, it's been _wildly_ effective. Example; I'm wrapping up, right now, an updated fork of the PHP extension `phpredis` because Redis 8 recently was released with support for a new data type, Vector Set but the phpredis extension (which is far more performant that non-extension redis libraries for PHP) doesn't support the new vector-related commands. I forked the extension repo, which is in…
How do you know what it built is correct if you don’t know C?
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#245They could charge me anything.
But unless they knock off the msg rate limiting, won't touch them.
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#246Anthropic's pricing is crazy IMO. Still haven't tried the Code product because of it.
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#247I prefer just paying for metered use on every request. I hope monthly fees don’t carry over from the last era of tech. It’s fine to charge consumers $10 per month. But once it’s over $50 let’s not pretend you are hoping I under utilize the service, and you want me to think I’m over utilizing it. These premium subscriptions are too much for me to pretend that math doesn’t exist.
Doesn't per-call pricing reduce your usage? When I see the price of a session go to >$3, for a handful of interactions I self-limit my usage. I'd love to have an all-you-can-eat, but $100 p/m isn't compelling enough compared to copy/paste for $20 p/m via chat. That's not to say the value doesn't exceed $100, I just don't want to pay it.
Sort of, but in a good way, if I’ve spent $15 on a problem and it’s not solved, it reminds me to stop wasting tokens and think of a better strategy. On net it makes me use less tokens, but more for efficiency. I mostly love that I don’t need to periodically do math on a subscription to see if I’m getting a good deal this month.
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#248Tangential, but I don't want to use LLMs for writing code because it's one of the things I enjoy the most in life, but it's feeling that I'm going to need to have to to get ready for the next years of my career. I've had some experiences with Claude that have seriously impressed me, but it takes away the fun that I've found in my jobs since I was in middle school writing small programs. Does anyone have advice for ma…
Are you using it for other things? I think you can write code without it but it’s so good for research and stack overflow replacement. Last night I used it to look through some project in an open source code base in a language I’m not familiar with to get a report on how that project works. I wanted to know what are its capabilities and integrations with these other specialized tools, because the documentation is so…
How can you be sure that the report is accurate? Did you verify that the project actually has the capabilities & integrates with the other specialized tools? I've seen many instances where the model either left out important information or came up with totally new stuff that got buried in the rest (mostly true) of the answer.
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
Deep research has saved me weeks worth of man hours in the last couple of months…
Out of curiosity, which vendor? The deep research is somewhat new to me but I am open minded.
I use two or three at a time and then have another LLM merge and synthesize the output
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my 30 years of software development, maybe 5 of them were in places were getting people to provide a formal spec was ever an option. It's also irrelevant if LLM's can follow them - the way I use Claude Code is to have it get things roughly working, supply test cases showing where it fails, then review and clean up the code or go additional rounds with more test cases. That's not much different to how I work with m…
You don't understand. The fact that getting a formal spec is impossible is precisely why you need to hire a developer with a big salary and generous benefits. The formal spec lives only in the developer's head. It's the only way. Does an LLM coding agent provide any value here? Hardly. It's just an excuse for the developer to waste time futzing around "coding" when what they're really paid to do is cram that ineffabl…
Nonsense.
It works just fine to use an LLM coding agent in cases like this, but you need to be aware of what you're actually trying to do with them and be specific instead of assuming they'll magic up the spec from thin air.