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A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

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548 points kmelve | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 19:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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nikcub ◴[02 Sep 25 23:18 UTC] No.45110364[source]▶
> budget for $1000-1500/month for a senior engineer going all-in on AI development.

Is this another case of someone using API keys and not knowing about the claude MAX plans? It's $100 or $200 a month, if you're not pure yolo brute-force vibe coding $100 plan works.

https://www.anthropic.com/max

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1. reissbaker ◴[03 Sep 25 01:31 UTC] No.45111294[source]▶
Yeah $1k-1.5k seems absurdly high. The $200/month 20x variant of the Max plan covers an insane amount of usage, and the rate limits reset every five hours. Hard to imagine needing it so badly that you're blowing through that rate limit multiple times a day, every day... And if you are, I think switching to per-token payment would probably cost a lot more than $1k.