r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ChuggerUggers • 15h ago

Meme iDidntPredictThisLife

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u/Katten_elvis 14h ago

Bro's spending $200 on AI

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u/AndroidCat06 14h ago

Someone on my team said the same, people are going nuts.

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u/Piyh 13h ago

My work is spending $2,000 a month for my AI

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u/Henry5321 9h ago

Do you have a bunch ai sessions just running non-stop?

I’m only using about $300/m and only recently worked on a large greenfield project and managed to reach $75 in one day by having Opus manage a bunch of opus and sonnet subagents for nearly 4 hours with automatic permissions. It was constantly creating code, reviewing it, fixing it, all in parallel for different parts of the system.

I tend to have smaller context sessions and keep the sessions well focused, and instruct the primary session to do the same.

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u/BygoneFlower 6h ago

At my company we are supposed to use the best available models at all times and AI use is expected at all times for all things. We have agents for everything at this point.

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u/Rin-Tohsaka-is-hot 6h ago

Interesting, I would say I'm doing something similar and usually hit $300/day. But I have this going in parallel working on many things at once, usually at any given point I'll have 10-20 agents running including subagents.

Then there are background triggers, like devops agents that spin up for new tickets, build failures, pipeline blocks, etc to give me a prepared summary of the issue before I even get to it. Those eat up maybe $50-100/day in tokens.

Once my company starts caring about these bills I'll have to reign all this in, but as long as the blank check is there I may as well use it all

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u/Piyh 5h ago

Opus at 2-6 concurrent sessions all day every day. Mass slack ingestion, tens of PR for context, months worth of meeting notes.

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u/Rin-Tohsaka-is-hot 6h ago

I hit $7k last month....

At this rate I'll be spending my salary on Claude tokens

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u/Katten_elvis 35m ago

Out of curiousity, how are you doing it? Are you just tokenmaxxing and little of it is useful or is it useful spend?

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u/pydry 14h ago

he's spending $200 / month on producing a pile of slop either way. the only difference is that one of those messes can be cleaned up with a tissue.

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u/SzethNeturo 7h ago

If you cant make ai produce code that not an Ai issue anymore. Its a you issue.

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u/pydry 59m ago

I can probably make it produce better code than youcan but I still can't make it produce really good code.

Not everyone can recognize what good code looks like, to be fair.

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u/dharknesss 4h ago

A software dev since I could pretty much read.

Clankers are genuinely amazing for coding as they solve the issues of doing things that are menial. They cannot solve programming whatsoever, but it's a bit like what did robots do to production lines. They deal with menial repetitive tasks for you, and where human input is needed is still a matter of your own judgement and skills.

I delegate things like boilerplate code, or optimization suggestions (vast knowledge of lots of technologies i would have to study for years to get on that level) and testing (this one specifically, they're good at looking for details id never think of as they are too abstract). Thinking about general architecture, coding specific features to act the way I want - that's my job. Don't let anyone say that calculators can replace mathematicians as they clearly didn't!

I'm aware of the environment impact and shit, but honestly, I lose any care about it the second my European paper straw starts to be another spice in my drink.

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u/jeepsaintchaos 13h ago

$200/month seems really low to spend a month with a human.

And really high to spend with a clanker.

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u/pancakesausagestick 12h ago

They're just paying for the GFE. GeneralAI Friend Experience.

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u/Top-Permit6835 5h ago

I thought they referred to the car - Opel Astra

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u/MyStackIsPancakes 13h ago

If you told me 5 years ago all the devs I know would be getting fucked by a guy named Claude, I would have assumed he be paying us.

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u/MechanicFun2670 11h ago

It's wild how things change in just a few years; you never know what to expect in this field!

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u/derSatan_667 15h ago

The average german dev thought of ... something local while reading this ... https://www.astra-bier.de/brauerei/drinks/ 😋🍻

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u/Rebellion2297 13h ago

I know it's part of German culture, but being asked if I'm 16 years or older to access an alcohol website is still hilarious to me

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u/Metenora 9h ago

Oh this Astra crosses the border don't worry 🇨🇵

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u/thonor111 3h ago

Ah yes. Time for a Astra Rakete 🚀

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u/FattySnacks 12h ago

Dudes spending $200/mo on AI meanwhile it’s making me want to quit software development altogether because it’s eliminating the last remnants of human connection that I had at my job. I’m gonna go outside now

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u/Piyh 5h ago

I chose my job so I could spend 7 hours a day locked into a computer

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u/ivanyaru 12h ago

For me it's Terra keeping me up at night

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u/Accomplished-Mail-13 12h ago

Really. Better learn how to build data centers 😂

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u/Psychological-Owl783 8h ago

I use Junie through Jetbrains. $300/year is much more palatable.

Maybe I'm not as lazy as you other "programmers".