alt Hacker NewsI'm just flabbergasted at the massive inefficient usage of tokens. What are people doing to spend 500 usd/day in tokens. I just don't understand what you could possibly be doing that would be not complete spagetti at the end if you run something in an autoloop.
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intended • today at 6:28 PM
It looks like a “People respond to incentives (prices)” situation.
If something is cheaper than alternatives, spending patterns change. People subsidize corn or power and so consumers alter behavior to take advantage of those prices.
xnx • today at 5:47 PM
> What are people doing to spend 500 usd/day in tokens
1) They're lying
2) Status signalling
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Using Claude code with Opus 4.7 and xhigh effort for a few hours will definitely cost hundreds of usd.
I am not sure if you would call claude code "an auto loop", but you don't need to be running something crazy like gas town to spend a lot of tokens with Claude.