Leadership is not being dumb, at least on this topic. If your token usage is that low, you just aren't using AI that much (even if you think you are.)
Software is a big graph of interlocked rules. And if you can grasp the whole or the part you own (and you should be able to), it's often very easy to see the control points. You don't have a coding bottleneck anymore, you have a communication bottleneck[0]. Which is an organizational issue, not anything relevant to engineering.
[0]: See Naur's Programming as Theory Building and Brooke's Mythical Man Month.
Sometimes AI overdoes things and it re-runs the whole testsuite because the tail command didn't have enough lines, but the other way round messes up the context so much so that in the end all that context is useless.
If you are working on a seriously large legacy code base, I can see how you'd get to >$250 on a bad day.
> Before the doomers come in, you get $200 in API credits every month for claude -p usage. Usage counts against those API credits.
So which is it $300/day is trivial to consume or $200/month is a completely reasonable limit, it can't be both.
"If you aren't donating at least your salary's worth of company money to another company every day, are you even working?"
I know for sure that reality exists, and that they will either catch up or be left behind. Don't really need to explain myself beyond this.
Hackernews acts like a great litmus test indeed.
No AI believer ever gives any concrete examples or evidence of what they’re doing with all the tokens and how it’s objectively helping them make the world a better place. Even for the shareholders (excluding the shareholders of Anthropic, or course), never mind the rest of us.