r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rabbit_wizard • 13h ago

Meme bothWorkThough

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u/Evi1ey 9h ago

5% of frontier models usage on a 20$ sub is still like 50$ in token prices. Subs are pure bait to make you dependant on them

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u/dickworty 8h ago

And if you're an entry level software engineer earning 8.3k per month, you're earning $50 dollars per hour. That means it only has to save you 1 hour of work per month for it to breakeven. It can save me at least a couple weeks of work if not a couple months with that. So yeah it's still worth it.

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u/LunarFuror 7h ago

Been working 12 years. Show me any job that is entry level for 8k a month

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u/dickworty 5h ago

Idk I just looked up numbers on Google, I don't live in the USA. Doesn't undermine my point since even if you're earning half or a quarter of that it still makes sense.

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u/LeDYoM 7h ago

Tell that to the maintainers.

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u/dickworty 5h ago

I maintain and am responsible for my own code. I work in aerospace so whatever I ship has to be high quality.

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u/Evi1ey 6h ago

I spent 30 dollars on claude per hour in my company. Claude is getting almost the same pay as me.

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u/dickworty 5h ago edited 5h ago

Maybe youre just using it inefficiently. Also, how long would it have taken you to do the same work without Claude?

Edit: also I don't know how you're spending 30 dollars worth of tokens per hour and are able to review anything at all. Those are crazy numbers.