On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 9:24 PM Anders Andersson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 1:49 AM Sean Reifschneider <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >That is an interesting result. Which AI setup are you using and what > > >does it cost? > > > > As far as cost, my work pays $110/mo for the "Claude Pro 5x" plan, > > and most months I pay another $100-ish on top of that to get the > > "Pro 20x" upgrade ($200+tax). I pretty much do everything on the > > Opus 4.7 with "/effort max", because it works really great for me. > > But, it does chew through tokens, if you get the $20/mo account > > this setup will always be running out of tokens. They just recently > > increased the number of tokens you get at each level, so the $100 > > level is *VERY* usable. I run a lot of experiments to try different > > things just to get more experienced using the tooling, which is why > > I'm at the $200/mo level. For example: > > https://linsomniac.github.io/rally-xy/ > > A sad future for free software. You make sure that every programmer > must pay monthly to Google and Amazon, and $20 per month is not > enough. The four freedoms of GPL are in practice slowly eroded.
Speaking of which, even Microsoft couldn't afford it. Recent news: https://aiweekly.co/alerts/microsoft-drops-claude-code-after-budget-overrun
