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Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent

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152 points GavinAnderegg | 6 comments | 01 Jul 25 12:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.614s | source | bottom
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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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nisegami ◴[03 Jul 25 15:29 UTC] No.44456068[source]▶
My butt needs to be in this chair 8 hours a day. Whether it takes me 20 hours to do a task or 2 doesn't really matter.
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1. Fokamul ◴[03 Jul 25 15:58 UTC] No.44456385[source]▶
That's your problem, or your company or your country.

Here in EU, if not stated in your work agreement, it's pretty common people work full time job and also as a self-employed contractor for other companies.

So when I'm finished with my work, HO of course, I just work on my "contractor" projects.

Honestly, I wouldn't sign a full time contract banning me from other work.

And if you have enough customers, you just drop full time job. And just pay social security and health insurance, which you must pay by law anyway.

And specially in my country, it's even more ridiculous that as self-employed you pay lower taxes than full time employees, which truth to be told are ridiculously high. Nearly 40% of your salary.

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2. teiferer ◴[03 Jul 25 16:09 UTC] No.44456510[source]▶
> Here in EU, if not stated in your work agreement, it's pretty common people work full time job and also as a self-employed contractor for other companies.

First time I'm hearing this. Where in the EU are you? I don't know anybody doing this, but it could depend on the country (I'm in the nordics).

3. TheRoque ◴[03 Jul 25 16:15 UTC] No.44456561[source]▶
In my country France, your contact May state hours, so you're paid to sit in the chair

Freelancing as a side hustle may be forbidden if your employer refuses

And it makes sense to pay more taxes since you also have more social benefits (paid leaves, retirement money and unemployment money), nothing is free

4. lazyasciiart ◴[03 Jul 25 16:18 UTC] No.44456597[source]▶
Hmm, not a practice I’ve come across in the EU. What countries specifically are you talking about?
5. Tainnor ◴[03 Jul 25 19:03 UTC] No.44458192[source]▶
> Here in EU, if not stated in your work agreement, it's pretty common people work full time job and also as a self-employed contractor for other companies.

Absolutely not a common thing in my corner of the EU.

6. jpc0 ◴[04 Jul 25 08:50 UTC] No.44462569[source]▶
Not sure about where you are but here the tax rate when not taken as an employee is effectively the maximum individual tax rate, so usually for actual cash it is best to pay yourself a salary from your freelance “business” and handle employees tax.

There are always loopholes and ways to work around which our tax code will happily discover and kill year on year.

So you get to pick how you want to pay tax but the amount usually isn’t much different when you get to the highest brackets