Yeah. I think people are reading $200 as "per month" and not "per day". I do a lot with unrationed Claude tokens and $6k/month is fine. Have I exceeded it? Yes. But it's very rare.

Things that drive up spend is mostly doing other people's work. Triage, "that doesn't seem quite right, let's see what happens if I prompt it", properly investigating incidents (I get a lot where the reporter's agent didn't read the code and just guesses at how it works, kind of making the report useless). Fixing those things is what would really get token spend down -- a consistent way of making bug reports against other teams that has the same context as the people that work on it everyday. I don't know if it's possible. But I'm anti-rationing because the first thing you do when your tokens are counted is to stop helping other people, right?

The fact that it's expensive has nothing to do with how useful it is though... I know plenty of people who max out their $200 plans every week, and they are working on stuff a lot less financially valuable than what Apple employees work on.

I think engineers in the Bay area are paid more than 12k / month. Maybe it's 1/3 of their salary :)

"Apple is paying API prices, not subscription prices, though. $6000/month"

Smart guy showed up. Yes. Don't do this.