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I find it hard to understand that people consider $200 p/m a lot for what they are getting. Expensive compared to what? A netflix sub?

A 1hr of a senior dev is at least $100, depending where one lives. Since Claude saves me hours every day, it pays for itself almost instantly. I think the economic value of the Claude subscription is on the order of $20-40k a month for a pro.

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When did I say anything about what I'm getting? I said I pay $200/mo and I expect that to cover anything up to my usage limit. I don't expect any slightly non-standard configuration to immediately ignore the high subscription price that I pay and go straight to "extra usage" that has to be billed separately by the token. I wouldn't even care if fast mode used 10x or 50x the usage as long as I could actually USE the balance that I already pay for. I thought the point of extra usage was to be for overage.

Fair point. I read your comment as '$200 is a lot, they shouldnt ask for more'. My bad!

When you say "saves me", do you mean that you can prompt claude for like 1 hour per day, get your typical pre-AI output, and then go about doing whatever you like outside of work for rest of the day?

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