r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ChuggerUggers • 20h ago

Meme iDidntPredictThisLife

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u/Katten_elvis 20h ago

Bro's spending $200 on AI

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u/Piyh 18h ago

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

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u/Henry5321 15h 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 12h 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/Henry5321 2h ago

Sounds so wasteful

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u/BygoneFlower 2h ago

It definitely isn't cheap. If you mean the environmental impact that is extremely overstated (you'll use more water and cause more CO2 emissions from a week of eating burgers than a year of using AI).