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Comment by sunaookami | Hacker News Reader

In what world is 200$ per month cheap?

The last time I did contract work when I was between jobs I made $100/hour.

And I won’t say how much my employer charges for me. But you can see how much the major consulting companies charge here

https://ceriusexecutives.com/management-consultants-whats-th...

Claude will happily generate tons of useless code and you will be charged appropriately. the output of LLMs has nothing to do with payment rates, otherwise you end up with absurdities like valuating useless CCC that was very expensive to build using LOCs as a metrics whereas in reality is a toy product nobody in their right mind would ever use.

My metrics are really simple - I don’t do staff augmentation. I get a contract (SOW) with a known set of requirements and acceptance criteria.

The only metrics that matter is it done on time, on budget and meets requirements.

But if Claude Code is generating “useless code” for you, you’re doing it wrong

And I assure you that my implementations from six years of working with consulting departments/companies (including almost four as blue badge, RSU earning consultant at AWS ProServe) have never gone unused.

Where the value you extract out of the model is orders of magnitude higher than the price of 2..6 hours of your time.

It's not cheap but it's also not unusual for devs to burn $200 a day on tokens.

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