[LoganDark]

$300? That much sounds like it would last a year. You don't need to spend anywhere near $300 just to try things out

[hombre_fatal]

I burned through $50 credits in a sitting the first time I used Claude Code to see what I could vibe-code from scratch. You're pushing whole files of tokens through it every time you interact with it.

[LoganDark]

Huh, maybe the reason it doesn't use this much for me is because my work has mostly source files that are far too large for Claude Code to read. It always has to ask for permission to use grep because it can't figure out how to use the read tool properly. I've done entire new features on probably around $15 of credit max.

[fragmede]

for better or worse, Claude code is less parsimonious with tokens compared to aider for the same thing.

[danielbln]

We're using Cline, and it's very easy to blow through $20-40 if you get going. The value proposition is absolutely there so we eat the cost, but OP is correct in that agentic coding eats tokens like there's no tomorrow.

[nickysielicki]

RTFA, agents churn through credits. Further enforcing my belief that the vast majority of people have not actually tried it yet.

[LoganDark]

> RTFA, agents churn through credits.

I literally use Claude Code as part of my job, so either the "FA" is wrong, or my costs are only low because work just happens to have a codebase that reduces costs (lol)