[solumunus]

It’s crazy how different my experience is. I think perhaps it’s incredibly important what programming language you are using, what your project and architecture is like. Agents are making an extraordinary contribution to my productivity. If they jacked my Claude Code subscription up to $500/month I would be upset but almost certainly would keep paying it, that’s how much value it brings.

I’m in enterprise ERP.

[merlincorey]

It sounds like you use your personal Claude Code subscription for work of your employer, but that is not something I would ever consider doing personally so I imagine I must be mistaken.

Can you elaborate slightly on what you pay for personally and what your employer pays for with regards to using LLMs for Enterprise ERP?

[rcbdev]

Freelancers regularly use tools such as Copilot and Claude, it's always handled professionally and in agreement with their customers. I've seen other freelancers do it plenty of times in the last 1-2 years at my customer sites.

Why so narrow minded?

[merlincorey]

I'm inquisitive not narrow minded.

The GP didn't mention anything about freelancing so unless you know them or stalked them you are perhaps being narrow minded here.

[rcbdev]

They also never said anything about being employed.

You are being narrow minded here.

[merlincorey]

Again, I disagree and reaffirm my being full of inquisitiveness.

You are being downright unpleasant and I don't think we should continue this conversation further until you open your mind.

[rcbdev]

Ditto.

[solumunus]

I own my own business.

[merlincorey]

Interesting and thanks for clarifying that aspect. I have a few more questions if you would be able to answer any of them at any level of detail I would appreciate it.

How much would you be willing to pay to continue using Claude on a monthly basis before you stopped?

Do you currently maintain the new (as of two weeks ago) cash reserve to ensure it continues working when limits are reached and how much do you reserve for said reserve?

Finally, do you send your customer's code or data directly to Claude or do you use it indirectly on generic stuff and then manually specialize the outputs?

[embedding-shape]

Even more important than those things, is how well you can write and communicate your ideas. If you cannot communicate your ideas so a human could implement it as you wanted it to without asking extra questions, a LLM isn't gonna be able to.

[doxeddaily]

As someone who has managed engineers for many years I find those skills immediately applicable to the LLM domain. If you aren't used to communicating what you are trying to build to other engineers I think using the AI is harder as you need to develop those skills.

[embedding-shape]

I'd take it a step further and say that for any engineer who is used to collaborating with others, engineers or not, should have these skills already, but as most of us know, communication is a generally lacking skill among the population at large, even among engineers too.

[onemoresoop]

Natural language programming has arrived in my opinion. If you're not a developer or have any experience programming it won't help much