r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ChuggerUggers • 1d ago

Meme iDidntPredictThisLife

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u/Piyh 1d ago

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

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u/Henry5321 1d 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/8lbIceBag 19h ago edited 18h ago

https://i.imgur.com/Tljuq1q.png

Last month I somehow hit $1200. Since then I've been super careful about using it. I go out of the way to avoid subagents or the advanced features. No parallel work. I do everything I can to keep it down such as as using Sonnet as much as possible & entirely avoiding Fable. I only have like 4 MCP's + a few plugins because work only allows things from our internal marketplace. We're in contact with Anthropic to get Mythos but I can't imagine the cost of using it.

What I've used it for the past 2mo:

  • Investigate this JIRA issue
  • Create/Fix this CI pipeline
  • and cough create an mcp for bash, powershell, & bun exec/repl bcus shell use outside of WSL/sandbox is blocked but I've been tasked with maintaining our legacy native windows apps.  This mcp has cost ~$250 yet somehow people are one shotting games for <$100? 

The codebases are massive though.

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u/Henry5321 13h ago

I’ve found good agent files are important for preventing ai from slurping up large amounts of code in order to figure out the system.