[kotaKat]

And can 'most people' even afford most of these services? Having seen some people's spend, even a $200/month plan has me questioning why I'd spend $200/month on Anthropic products when $200/month would be a substantial chunk of my housing as a blue-collar class IT worker just to survive.

[ericd]

You don't need a $200/mo plan, that's for people chewing through Opus tokens with multiple instances of Claude Code going in parallel. My impression is that most people just use the free ChatGPT tier, or $20/mo at most.

[brianwawok]

For coding or talking to it? $20 is ok to chat I guess. $100 is minimum if you do this for a job.

[ericd]

If you’re writing software professionally, does the “can’t afford to pay for Claude code” they were talking about apply?

[eudamoniac]

You are feeding customer/employer code into systems that the customer/employer has not provisioned for you?

[brianwawok]

I run my own business, I am the employer.

[LtWorf]

I own an apartment, my heating/electricity/water/internet/repairs costs ~400$/month.