[samokhvalov]

I hear you. WIP!

thanks for all the feedback. It's amazing for me too. It all started yesterday with a single prompt and curiosity what Opus 5 can do.

~3.86B tokens used so far (not counting GPT 5.6 Sol that at some point started to do a lot of legwork for coding)

[nugator]

~3.86B * $5/M tokens ≈ $19.3k

Is that the cost you've payed for this or is my calculation completely wrong?

[hectormalot]

Likely a lot of those tokens are cached. And because it’s an individual project it’s likely this is under a personal Claude Max 20x plan.

[samokhvalov]

correct on both counts

[nugator]

So how much would you say this have cost you so far? Just $200 for this month?

[svobodamartin]

3.8B tokens, really Billions?

In my case token consumption per week of kinda intense 3 simultaneous projects coding half of the day on Max20 is 55M tokens.

Where do the extra ~2 orders of magnitude come from?

[saransh12345]

Share the prompt here please?

[samokhvalov]

it was silly, quick check out of curiosity what Opus 5 can do – and the first thing I saw was so impressive that it made me spend hours during weekend polishing it

here it is from history, without edits

> you're a veteran Postgres hacker and expert. I want 3D visualization of how Postgres works, for browser -- all its major components, presented as a 3d model, complex, with all parts zoomable, and animated, with controls -- checkpointer, bgwriter, autovacuum, walwriter, backends, walsender, etc etc etc. Imagine we need to build a 3d model of whole city. That's same level. We need this so engineers who are non-DB-experts would easily understand how it works. Design must be cool, modern, super cool, running all in browser, with controls, with camera position flying with arrow keys and mouse, zoomable, etc. Think deep how to implement it, which modern cool tech to use, and use ultracode to implement in a new directory (we'll commit it later). OK to use the most cool and most modern stuff. Think deep choose tools wisely and let's build an awesome in-browser 3d model of Postgres engine

(later I came with lots of materials about internals and behavior and we started to polish / improve)

[npl]

I frequently have asked Claude to explain different software architecture things that I don’t know because I’m not formally technically trained - like “explain Django as though it’s a city with different parts having different roles”. I’m a visual learner so this helps a lot and gives me ideas for how to have similar visualizing for other stuff at various levels of abstraction.

[yieldcrv]

single prompt Claude Design before putting it in Claude Code