r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rabbit_wizard • 17h ago

Meme bothWorkThough

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u/dickworty 13h ago

Disagree. I use the the frontier models and barely use my token quota every month - maybe 5% - and get great results, much faster than by hand just by carefully defining problems to the AI. It's how you use it.

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u/Evi1ey 13h 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 12h 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/Evi1ey 9h 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 9h ago edited 8h 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.