I've used Claude Code in the past month to do development on CoMaps [1] using the 20 USD/month plan.

I've been able to do things that I would not have the competence for otherwise, as I do not have a formal software engineering background and my main expertise is writing python data processing scripts.

E.g., yesterday I fixed a bug [2] by having Claude compare the CarPlay and iOS search implementations. It did at first suggest another code change than the one that fixed it, but that felt just like a normal part of debugging (you may need to try different things)

Most of my contributions [3] have been enabled by Claude, and it's also been critical to identify where the code for certain things are located - it's a very powerful search in the code base

And it is just amazing if you need to write a simple python script to do something, e.g., in [4]

Now this would obviously not be possible if everyone used AI tools and no one knew the existing code base, so the future for real engineers and architects is bright!

[1] https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps [2] https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/pulls/1792 [3] https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/pulls?state=all&type=all&... [4] https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/pulls/1782

Thanks for your contributions to Comaps. As the main developer of cartes.app, I'm happy to see libre traction in the world of maps.

Hope to make the bridge soon with i18n of cartes.app.

I also use LLMs to work on it. Mistral, mostly.

How are you using Claude Code with the $20/mo plan? Aren't you still paying the API prices on top of the $20/mo?