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AI costs spike as subscriptions hit pricing wall — firms turn towards Chinese LLMs, open-source models to extend budget (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I've seen a datapoint that an 8 hour business day with Claude is about 1 kUSD, so 20 business day month is some 20 kUSD. More with agentic AI.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 hours ago

I have no doubt some people can do that with a large project, a /goal loop, and (probably) poorly defined requirements.

My experience (using Claude models, but not Claude Code) is about $20-40/day worth of API costs in a collaborative mode, picking the right model for the task. Plan, implement, review & test features or bugs.

I get where I'm going faster, but not 10x faster nor 100x the cost. :-P