Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

Very good, Code is extremely nice but as others have said, if you let it go on its own it burns through your money pretty fast.

I've made it build a web scraper from scratch, figuring out the "API" of a website using a project from github in another language to get some hints, and while in the end everything was working, I've seen 100k+ tokens being sent too frequently for apparently simple requests, something feels off, it feels like there are quite a few opportunities to reduce token usage.

It probably makes sense to continue using third party tools such as aider, for now. Anthropic doesn't have a lot of incentives to reduce token usage.

Yes, thinking the same thing here.

That was my sense too. Used it for a few similar programs today (like converting HTML to Markdown but parsing certain <figure> elements to shortcodes) and scaffolding a Rust web app.

It's done a reasonable job — but rips through credit, often changing its mind. Even strong-arming it into choosing an approach, it wanted to flip-flop between using regex and lol_html to parse the HTML whenever it came across a difficulty.

If you're a US developer on whatever multiple of $ to the £ that I earn it might make sense, but burning through $100p/h for a pair programmer is a bit rich for my blood.

Apart from, of course, the incentive of being undercut on price by the competition at (likely soon) a similar level of performance.