you can skim the transcript but some personal highlights:
- anthropic employees, with unlimited claude, average to $6/day of usage
- headless claude code as a "linux" utility that you use everywhere in CI is pretty compelling
- claude code as a user extensible platform
- future roadmap of claude code: sandboxing, branching, planning
- sonnet 3.7 as a persistent, agentic model
From the link:
"Apparently, there are some engineers inside of Anthropic that have spent >$1,000 in one day!"
The question is what is the P50, P75, and P95 spend per employee?
For a tool that radically increases productivity (say 2x), I think it could still make sense for a VC funded startup or an established company (even $100/day or $36k/year is still a lot less than hiring another developer). But for a side project or bootstrap effort, $36k/year obviously significantly increases cash expenses. $100/month does not, however.
So, I'm going to go back and upgrade to Max and try it again. If that keeps my costs to $100/month, thats a really different value proposition.
Edit:
Found the answer to my own questions
> Send approximately 50-200 prompts with Claude Code every 5 hours[1]
Damn. That's a really good deal
[1] https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-cla...
I was listening to this podcast yesterday and I also did a double take when I heard the $6 per day number.
† simonw, gwern
i do feel like SNR * quantity could be higher, but its still a challenge to even keep it where it is today. my work life balance/stress levels aren't the best and everyone expects everything from me.