The Microsoft GitHub Copilot Pro Plus Premium Ultra Max at $40 a month is enough for me. My job isn’t only about coding.
Moreover, if you spend that much on tokens, that sounds like a skill issue and you may be creating a lot of technical debt. I don’t see how anyone can have the brain capacity to handle enormous code bases.
~$250 in 3 weeks at work. Its not steady, equal token distribution per day. There are days when it is $40 and there are days when it is < $10. Mostly due to bottlenecks like waiting on reviews, figma designs, story refinement, etc.
(Sidebar: There is a prediction that the traditional roles of Designer, Product Owner and Programmer are disappearing and converging into one single specialized role. (Claude Code has a blog about this) and I feel there is truth in this.)
So, my runrate right now is ~$4,200 per year, but I won't be surprised if it goes up. It depends on several factors.
It is crazy when I hear how much some people spend on AI! Having an agent cut out some of the boilerplate code is useful, but beyond that, are people just creating a backlog wishlist and then walking away?
That’s exactly what we’re doing. Connect the agent to your GitHub issues, tell it implement each one and spin on a loop until it’s finished. There’s more nuance to it than that but at a high level yeah, that’s how some people are using it.
$40/month at work and $10/month at home, and it's more than I can use.
I cannot imagine productively spending $250k/year on LLM coding - you'd need some kind of massive tree of agents reviewing each other's work and I think even then you would struggle to keep them on-task and sanity-checked. However, I don't make $500k a year so what do I know...
Moreover, if you spend that much on tokens, that sounds like a skill issue and you may be creating a lot of technical debt. I don’t see how anyone can have the brain capacity to handle enormous code bases.
(Sidebar: There is a prediction that the traditional roles of Designer, Product Owner and Programmer are disappearing and converging into one single specialized role. (Claude Code has a blog about this) and I feel there is truth in this.)
So, my runrate right now is ~$4,200 per year, but I won't be surprised if it goes up. It depends on several factors.
I cannot imagine productively spending $250k/year on LLM coding - you'd need some kind of massive tree of agents reviewing each other's work and I think even then you would struggle to keep them on-task and sanity-checked. However, I don't make $500k a year so what do I know...