alt Hacker NewsMaybe I am slow here and everyone is using Claude with credits at max use. But isn't Claude Teams like $25/month per developer for ordinary use? What the heck of these guys doing that makes it get that phenomenally expensive for their use cases? These are presumably well capable engineers who started to use this as an aid right not just throw Fable at everything and loop to the max?
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dannyw • today at 8:15 PM
If you’re a large company you gotta pay API rates basically. Team plans exclude a lot of governance/IdP stuff and have a cap on seats too.
vecter • today at 8:57 PM
They almost certainly pay for tokens, which is absurdly expensive
catchnear4321 • today at 7:28 PM
Team plan has a seat limit.
You should read Gas Town: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...
There are people out there building AI building orchestrators for orchestrators for orchestrators for agents. The author of that blog post later claimed to be spending the equivalent of $122k/month on tokens (by rotating their usage between 21 accounts).
As far as I can tell, the only thing that this level of spend has produced so far is an indie 2D RPG video game.