alt Hacker News> I am a little bit scared to say this too: last month I spent almost 10k USD on tokens. It sounds so insane.
What are people actually doing with all these tokens? I use LLMs pretty heavily for development, and I'm rarely spending all the tokens that come with a $10/month OpenCode Go subscription...
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HDThoreaun • today at 5:55 PM
A lot of their usage was fable which is crazy expensive.
nicce • today at 3:06 PM
If you are reviewing the changes and keep giving input, it is not that token consuming. But many people go with full yolo with agent mode.
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My heaviest LLM usage month came in at $45. So far this July, $6 and counting (it's been a light month). I can certainly imagine increasing my usage by several orders of magnitude but ... why? If I have something that needs to get done and an LLM can do it, great. But I'm not sitting here inventing reasons to waste money, which is apparently what the tokenmaxers are doing - as evidenced by the astounding lack of value produced by all this vibe coding.