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by KronisLV 13 days ago
> I use frontier models via API pre-paid tokens every single day, and I can barely rack up $100 per month.

According to ccusage (https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage) if I didn’t have the 100 USD Max subscription, I’d have to pay Anthropic around 4173 USD for the month of May.

  Input     │ Output     │ Cache Create │ Cache Read    │ Total Tokens  │ Cost (USD)
  1,948,016 │ 19,435,081 │ 103,626,350  │ 6,244,194,278 │ 6,369,203,725 │ $4173.09
Edit: pulled the latest numbers, not using Fast mode at all, but still Opus for most tasks.

Nothing too egregious with my usage patterns, typically Claude Code just churning tasks in 1-2 projects at a time, sometimes while I’m asleep - and I hit around 60-80% of the weekly caps most of the time.
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bloudermilk 13 days ago
How do you orchestrate this? I’m on max and would love to be hitting my caps when I’m not actively working a project
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KronisLV 13 days ago
In my case: the Claude Code desktop app makes having a bunch of parallel sessions easy, at least compared to when I had just a bunch of terminal windows open https://claude.com/download can also couple that with Remote Control https://code.claude.com/docs/en/remote-control

Previously I still had the issue of it occasionally stopping let's say after Stage 2/7 is done in some plan and asking me to continue, though I was asleep. The options there were either looping it (like RALPH loop), or more recently they also released their dynamic workflows alongside Opus 4.8: https://claude.com/blog/introducing-dynamic-workflows-in-cla... and now I just use that.

So essentially you come up with a plan and just ask it to create a dynamic workflow for you, and it's gonna go through everything step by step, sometimes parallelizing (as it normally would with sub-agents) as necessary. Can also use worktrees if needed.

Here's an example of the UI: https://imgur.com/a/4Gr3Z2T (note that I'm using DeepSeek there for a small local utility, with a tool I'm using for managing various providers with Claude Code, but works the same with subscription)

I looked at the stuff Cline was doing with their Kanban boards too, but in the end realized that I don't really need those (for now) and that Claude Code is enough.

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