[i_love_retros]

I can't believe people are spending $100 a month on this! You're all mad!

[grebc]

When you consider the cross section of the tech community posting on HN, is it really that surprising?

It’s mad for sure, but I’d bet 99.9% of people spending money on AI aren’t spending their own hard earned sooo… “YOLO it’s a business expense/investment”…

[Syzygies]

Hearing my "before I die" math and code ambitions, a psychiatrist friend tried to convince me to hire a full-time programming assistant. Then came AI.

Money is relative. I retired at less than the average professor salary (all ages) at a not-rich school. I would have made more in tech. I still have weeks where the market goes up 2000x my AI budget, just the retirement savings from my salary. Anyone who isn't living in a van and eating peanut butter if they must, to save the max toward retirement, isn't recognizing how profoundly our system is rigged to favor saving.

[kisamoto]

I had a similar opinion a couple of years ago, content with more of an autocomplete.

Now I'm happy with agents as the models and harnesses have improved significantly but the token usage comes at a cost.

[vidarh]

$200 for Claude, $50 to Open AI, and maybe $100 for Openrouter, and a second Claude account paid by a client... Likely to increase.

It easily pays for itself 10x over.

[gozzoo]

some are spending 100/day or even 1000/day. they must really be mad :)

[i_love_retros]

Drunk on perceived power

[nubg]

Your ignorance is our opportunity :)

[dboreham]

To get the equivalent of a junior developer that would cost $80,000/yr + benefits?