[rolisz]

With Claude Code Ultrathink, I used 3 million tokens in 20 minutes. At API prices, that would be around 30$. So 90$/h. Model cost is not that much lower.

[kennywinker]

x40hrs/week * 50 weeks = $180k

Congrats, now you’re paying an engineer’s salary to make your engineer at best 20% more productive.

Better to hire another engineer, or two jrs, and build up your in house talent.

[kopirgan]

Only you get things done lost faster and don't need to pay entire years salary?

[kennywinker]

How so?

If you’re doing a one-off project, sure. But if you’re coding like this full time, you’re paying the year’s salary anyway.

And faster? Not so sure about that. Sure they can write code faster, but writing code is a small part of building something.

[kopirgan]

That's a good point.. Writing code vs building

[cicko]

except this is way more than an engineering salary. At least in Europe.

[kennywinker]

I’m sure there are engineers making $180k usd / year in the eu. Maybe it’s unusual, but hey, now you can cancel your claude subscription and hire a really good engineer