alt Hacker NewsThis is great and all but, who can actually afford to let these agents run on tasks all day long? Is anyone here actually using this or are these rollouts aimed at large companies?
I'm burning through so many tokens on Cursor that I've had to upgrade to Ultra recently - and i'm convinced they're tweaking the burn rate behind the scenes - usage allowance doesn't seem proportional.
Thank god the open source/local LLM world isn't far behind.
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Many many companies can afford to hire a junior engineer for $150k/year (plus employer payroll taxes, employee benefits etc.).
Are you spending more than $150k per year on AI?
(Also, you're talking about the cost of your Cursor subscription, when the article is about Claude Code. Maybe try Claude Max instead?)
Especially for what’s basically an experiment. Gas town didn’t really work, so there’s no guarantee this will even produce anything of value.
I mean what you get for Claude Code Max is insane its 30x on the token price. If you don’t spend that all it’s your own fault. That must be below elecricity cost
I can't even get through my Claude Max quota, and that's only 200/mo. And I code every day and use it for various other pretty-intensive tasks.