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sevenzerotoday at 8:44 AM1 replyview on HN

With cheaper models I really meant cheaper subscriptions but used the wrong vocabulary. We still use Claude Opus (if thats what 4.6 is?). We just have the 20 bucks subscription and I barely use up my token limits in my day to day work.

I often wonder what kinda features other devs implement compared to me, if they need that many tokens?

It kind of feels impractical to bloat up an app with features one barely understands? I've just been reading about these devs using x-amount of tokens, having that y-amount of steps perfected AI workflow, but none of them ever talk about what they actually implement all day...


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imtringuedtoday at 11:59 AM

Yeah, I noticed this as well. The most common trap I've seen though is when people suddenly get the idea "code is cheap now" and then start working on low value projects but then it turns out that it wasn't as cheap as they thought.