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Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

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Post by singhrac »

cye131 wrote: post #26

I'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.

Here's a very small piece of I code I generated quickly (i.e. https://gist.github.com/rachtsingh/e3d2e2b495d631b736d24b56e...

Is it correct? Sort of; I don't trust the duration benchmark because benchmarking is hard, but the size should be approximately right. It gave me a pretty clear answer to the question I had and did it quickly. I could have done it myself but it would have taken me longer to type it out.

I don't use it in large codebases (all agentic tools for me choke quickly), but part of our skillset is taking large problems and breaking them into smaller testable ones, and I give that to the agents. It's not frequent (~1/wk).

Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

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Post by logankeenan »

F7F7F7 wrote: post #31
warp wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't need a max subscription to use Claude Code. By default it uses your API credits, and I guess I'm not a heavy AI user yet (for my hobby projects), but I haven't spent more than $5/month on Claude Code the past few months.

I burned $30 in Claude Code in just under an hour. I was equally frustrated and impressed. So much so I ended up a $200 MAX subscriber.

I’ve been wanting to try Claude Code. What makes it such a difference maker compared to existing AI tools?

Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

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Post by hcnews »

ramoz wrote: post #32
tkzed49 wrote: post #14

The problem is that this is $100/mo with limits. At work I use Cursor, which is pretty good (especially tab completion), and at home I use Copilot in vscode insiders build, which is catching up to Cursor IMO. However, as long as Microsoft is offering copilot at (presumably subsidized) $10/mo, I'm not interested in paying 10x as much and still having limits. It would have to be 10x as useful, and I doubt that.

Doesn’t resonate with me because I’ve spent over $1,000 on Claude Code at this point and the return is worth it. The spend feels cheap compared to output. In contrast - I’m not interested in using cheaper, less-than, services for my livelihood.

Could you anonymize and share your last 5-10 prompts? Just wanna understand how people are using Claude Code.

Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

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Post by edoceo »

satvikpendem wrote: post #58
ramoz wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn’t resonate with me because I’ve spent over $1,000 on Claude Code at this point and the return is worth it. The spend feels cheap compared to output. In contrast - I’m not interested in using cheaper, less-than, services for my livelihood.

> the return is worth it I'm curious, what was the return? What did you do with the 1k?

Produce working code faster => ship faster => paid faster? That's the valu-prop right? So, naturally the $JOB will cover the bill.

Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

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Post by vel0city »

pier25 wrote: post #59
lkbm wrote: post #57

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If your employer spends $20k a month on you (salary + everything else), $200 a month breaks even at around a 1% boost in productivity.

Maybe if you're working in FAANG...

If you get an employer match on 401k/HSA, the employer pays full healthcare premium, employer sponsored life insurance benefits, unemployment insurance, employer covered disability, payroll taxes, and all the other software costs, it wouldn't even take $200k in salary to cost $20k/mo. Someone could be making like $150k and still cost the company that much.

Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

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Post by winrid »

hcnews wrote: post #74
ramoz wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn’t resonate with me because I’ve spent over $1,000 on Claude Code at this point and the return is worth it. The spend feels cheap compared to output. In contrast - I’m not interested in using cheaper, less-than, services for my livelihood.

Could you anonymize and share your last 5-10 prompts? Just wanna understand how people are using Claude Code.

"Ensure all our crons publish to telegraf when they start and finish. Include the cron name and tenant id when applicable. For crons that query batch jobs, only publish and take a lock when there is work to do. look at as an example. Here is the complete list to migrate. Create a todo list and continue until done. "

(updated for better example)

Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

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Post by infecto »

BowBun wrote: post #47
ramoz wrote: post #27

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Yes. For small apps, as well distributed systems. You have to puppeteer it and build a meta context/tasking management system. I spend a lot of time setting Claude code up for success. I usually start with Gemini for creating context, development plans, and project tasking outlines (I can feed large portions of codebase to Gemini and rely on its strategy). I’ve even put entire library docsites in my repos for Claude…

Is that final number really that crazy? With a well defined goal, you can put out 5-8K per day by writing code the old fashioned way. Also would love to see the code, since in my experience (I use Cursor as a daily driver), AI bloats code by 50% or more with unnecessary comments and whitespace especially when making full classes/files. > I spend a lot of time setting Claude code up for success. Normally I wouldn't po…

Nobody is writing 5k consistently on a daily basis. Sure if it’s a bunch of boiler scaffolding maybe.

I daily drive cursor and I have rules to limit comments. I get comments on complex lines and that’s it.

Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

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Post by lucyjojo »

vel0city wrote: post #76
pier25 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe if you're working in FAANG...

If you get an employer match on 401k/HSA, the employer pays full healthcare premium, employer sponsored life insurance benefits, unemployment insurance, employer covered disability, payroll taxes, and all the other software costs, it wouldn't even take $200k in salary to cost $20k/mo. Someone could be making like $150k and still cost the company that much.

gentle reminder that the majority of developers do not live in the united states.

median salary for a japanese dev is ~$60k. same range for europe (swiss at ~100k, italy at ~30k for the extremes). then you go down.

Russia ~$37,000 Brazil ~$31,500 Nigeria ~$6,000 Morocco ~$11,800 Indonesia ~$13,500 and india ~$30k usd

(asked chatgpt for these numbers down there, JP and EU numbers are mostly correct though as I have first hand experience).

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