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Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated

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214 points Brajeshwar | 4 comments | 31 Aug 25 14:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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philip1209 ◴[31 Aug 25 15:57 UTC] No.45084165[source]▶
I looked at our anthropic bill this week. Saw that one of our best engineers was spending $300/day on Claude. Leadership was psyched about it.
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1. protocolture ◴[01 Sep 25 02:56 UTC] No.45089017[source]▶
Is he using it to code or just chatting up his AI girlfriend.
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2. sdesol ◴[01 Sep 25 07:29 UTC] No.45090361[source]▶
Joking aside, if he is one of the top developers in the company and if he is "actually" a good developer, when compared to others outside of the company, then I can see this bill.

The current feature that I'm working on, required 100 messages to finalize things and I would say the context window was around 35k - 50k per "chat completion". My model of choice is Gemini 2.5 Flash which has an input cost of $0.30/1M. Compare this to Sonnet which is $3.00/1M.

If the person was properly designing and instructing the LLM to build something advanced correctly, I can see the bill being quite high. I personally don't think you need to use Sonnet 99% of the time, but if somebody else is willing to pay the bill, why not.

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3. mlnj ◴[01 Sep 25 09:05 UTC] No.45090930[source]▶
Meanwhile an entire lake has evaporated in Northern Canada to deliver me a slightly different version of yet another payment options page.
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4. protocolture ◴[01 Sep 25 09:21 UTC] No.45091009{3}[source]▶
Awesome. That must be on the same planet where 300% of the worlds power goes to processing a single bitcoin transaction.