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Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent

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152 points GavinAnderegg | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 12:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.276s | source
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cmrdporcupine ◴[03 Jul 25 15:02 UTC] No.44455776[source]▶
I get a lot of value out of Claude Max at $100 USD/month. I use it almost exclusively for my personal open source projects. For work, I'm more cautious.

I worry, with an article like this floating around, and with this as the competition, and with the economics of all this stuff generally... major price increases are on the horizon.

Businesses (some) can afford this, after all it's still just a portion of the costs of a SWE salary (tho $1000/m is getting up there). But open source developers cannot.

I worry about this trend, and when the other shoe will drop on Anthropic's products, at least.

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mring33621 ◴[03 Jul 25 15:06 UTC] No.44455817[source]▶
Those market forces will push the thriftier devs to find better ways to use the lesser models. And they will probably share their improvements!

I'm very bullish on the future of smaller, locally-run models, myself.

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1. cmrdporcupine ◴[03 Jul 25 15:09 UTC] No.44455844[source]▶
I have not invested time on locally-run, I'm curious if they could even get close to approaching the value of Sonnet4 or Opus.

That said, I suspect a lot of the value in Claude Code is hand-rolled fined-tuned heuristics built into the tool itself, not coming from the LLM. It does a lot of management of TODO lists, backtracking through failed paths, etc which look more like old-school symbolic AI than something the LLM is doing on its own.

Replicating that will also be required.