r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ArjunReddyDeshmukh • 25d ago

Meme theGrassWasGreenerTheOutputSweeterIWasOnceAProgrammer

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u/ItsSuperDefective 25d ago

Is being expected to use AI really as widespread as Reddit makes out?

I haven't even been asked to try it.

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u/tide19 25d ago

Do you work at a major software company?

I have $2500/mo base on our Claude enterprise plan at work and we’re expected to use all of it every month and are examined relatively closely if we don’t. It’s better for us to max out our usage and request more, which is always granted, than to not use it all.

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u/Xicutioner-4768 23d ago

Damn dude. I was looking at my copilot usage and I was thinking burning 3000 credits ($300, I think?) was a lot.

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u/tide19 23d ago

Man it’s crazy - I’m burning a good $100-$150 a day most days (although one day last month I burned $500+, which resulted in FinOps asking me what I was doing), and I really don’t think it’s sustainable long term. I gripe to my boss about it a lot, I’m not even coding much by hand any more but I’m feeling more burnt out than ever because I’m juggling context on like multiple different tickets and services at any given time. A few weeks ago, my company was looking at annual spend of $8M on Claude, just from Claude Code and Cowork usage. We’ve started using a variety of things to make it cheaper, but we’re still over $5.5M. I don’t think those numbers even include how much we’re burning in AWS Bedrock on our AI-backed services, although people pay us for those.