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What is going broke for a programmer?

This is US centric but a $200 Claude code and $100 codex sub is a vast, vast amount of tokens. Enough to pay for itself many times over. It provides exposure to the very edge of harnesses and experience that is being hired for.

Isn’t there an argument this is possibly the best price to available performance for frontier models? Both due to subsidies and the distance between open and accessible alternatives?

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I used Kiro in December and I burnt through 200 eur worth of tokens in a weekend. Ultimately it was money well-spent, but, I think that if you want, you can spend as much compute as you have access to. Will it be efficient use of tokens? Probably not.

From all the data, it looks like the 200usd we pay for monthly usage is subsidised… at break-even pricing … well, that 200 is starting to look like a few thousand.

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