alt Hacker NewsThat's really misrepresenting how it works. Most lines will be written, re-written again and adjusted multiple times. Yesterday I did approx 5 hours of peer-coding with claude 4 opus. And I have these stats:
Total tokens in: 3,644,200 Total tokens out: 92,349
And of that only approx 2.3k lines where actually commited for PRs.
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0points • 08/01/2025
There are code generators for CRUD. You could be a 10x AI programmer without AI if the measure is how fast you bang out CRUDs.
I calculate that as $61.59 https://www.llm-prices.com/#it=3644200&ot=92349&ic=15&oc=75
So that's about $12/hour, or 2.6 cents per line of finished code.
Still pretty cheap! Very few unassisted human programmers can churn out 2300/(5 * 60) = 7.6 lines of code per minute consistently over a five hour time span.
That said, I think Claude Code, while impressive, is incredibly quick to burn through tokens. I still mostly use copy-and-paste info Claude or ChatGPT as my main AI-assisted workflow which keeps me in more control and spends a ton less tokens.