[brookst]

“Hooked” is doing a lot of work there.

I’m happily paying $200/mo for Claude code. The tokens I use would be >$10k at API rates. I’m building the best products of my life, and multiple of them in parallel. I’m doing better creative work, finally realizing a game idea I’ve had no time for, etc.

If this level of usage goes to $500/mo… I’ll be out. It’s worth what I’m paying, but hey I went a decade without writing that song or building that game. It’s not freaking heroin, it’s a tool that offers a good value for what I pay.

[ofjcihen]

I interpreted hooked to mean “the degradation of skills has made it significantly harder to transition back to doing things with auto-complete/by hand”.

Could be wrong though.

[brookst]

Fair enough. Though in that framing I’d question whether SWE skills degrade that quickly, or are unrecoverable. I took a year off from writing software… I was fine.

[gctwnl]

That is interesting. $200/month for >$10k at API-pricing? That's way more than the 2.5x-12.5x the article observes.