[throwawayffffas]

Asking claude to implement a single feature that takes under 30 minutes consumes 10-30 dollars of tokens in api costs.

[jeremyloy_wt]

And if the engineer bills for $100/hr or more, the trade off is worth it

[mynameisbilly]

Why is everyone still operating under the assumption the current token costs will remain so heavily subsidized? We could see $200-400/hr in token costs once these companies need to turn a profit

[Paradigma11]

Because then people will just flock to open weight models that are even cheaper and Anthropic/OpenAI will go bankrupt. Then somebody will buy those companies for cents on the dollar and run a profitable token selling business for today's prices without doing any new research. New model releases will slow to a crawl but that's it.

[poisonborz]

Why would you do that? Why not use it to create a detailed plan and let it implement by a low cost model?