what plan are your 'fellow software engineers' using? I have a hard time even using up the Fable part of my allowance in a week of coding.
I'm on the Premium business plan and I can easily use up my entire week's allocation in two days of coding. I only use Claude for planning, too, the rest is done by Deepseek and GPT.
Claude is very spendy.
I'm not sure to be fair, but they do have constant "token anxiety", which I simply don't have anymore since using v4 flash.