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Fixed-price monthly plans ought to be sufficient for most people who actually review their spec and code, for building production-grade software that stand the test of time. A careful spec+review+iteration takes time, resetting the usage quota. Granted, security audits uses tokens too.

If you still need more tokens, odds that you're vibecoding unmaintainable throwaway trash.

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With access to view usage for my org and conversations with developers, I think much of the high token usage is a result of people not knowing how to right size the model for the given task. The trend seems to be to pick the most powerful model and use it for everything. Based upon git metrics, I'm one of the top performing engineers at my org and I've yet to run into any overage or throttling on the $200/mo anthropic sub.

I had no idea git metrics could show your best performers

It could put managers out of a job, without AI too, so they prefer to not use it.

What metric shows performance? Lines of code added, deleted, number of commits? None of these are are good measure of quality and actual contribution.

It's a combination of different activity metrics (commits, PRs, comments, etc) with AI thrown in to figure out substance/complexity of the work. I originally thought the summaries were simple metrics without factoring quality. There are products that provide this for github and other tools. E.g. https://getdx.com/

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