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Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent

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152 points GavinAnderegg | 2 comments | 01 Jul 25 12:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.437s | source
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lvl155 ◴[03 Jul 25 15:11 UTC] No.44455862[source]▶
Is $200/month a lot of money when you can multiply your productivity? It depends but the most valuable currency in life is time. For some, spending thousands a month would be worth it.
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cmrdporcupine ◴[03 Jul 25 15:12 UTC] No.44455872[source]▶
As I said elsewhere... $200/month etc is potentially not a lot for an employer to pay (though I've worked for some recently who balk at just stocking a snacks tray or drink fridge...).

But $200/month is unbearable for open source / free software developers.

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morkalork ◴[03 Jul 25 15:31 UTC] No.44456091[source]▶
It's wild when a company has another department and will shell out $200/month per-head for some amalgamation of Salesforce and other SaaS tools for customer service agents.
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1. cmrdporcupine ◴[03 Jul 25 15:35 UTC] No.44456133[source]▶
I suspect there's some accounting magic where salaries and software licenses are in one box and "Diet Coke in the fridge" is in another, and the latter is an unbearable cost but the former "OK"

But yeah, doesn't explain non-payment for AI tools.

Current job "permits" Claude usage, but does not pay for it.

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2. dontlikeyoueith ◴[03 Jul 25 16:41 UTC] No.44456870[source]▶
> Current job "permits" Claude usage, but does not pay for it.

That seems like the worst of all worlds from their perspective.

By not paying for it they introduce a massive security concern.