> Ime, most companies rather buy a subscription than give their developers API keys (as it makes spending predictable).

The downside with subscriptions is that your work with the LLM will grind to a halt for a number of hours if you hit the token limit. I was doing what I consider very trivial work adding Javadoc comments to a few dozen files using Claude Sonnet on the $20 plan and within 30 minutes had been told to sit out for a couple hours. The reason was that Claude was apparently repeatedly sending the files up and down to fill in the comments. In hindsight, sure, that's obvious, but you would think that Claude would be smart enough to do some sort of summarization to make things more efficient. Looking into it, it was on the order of several million tokens in a very short amount of time.

It really made me wonder how in the hell people are using Claude to do "real" work, but I've heard of people having multiple $200/month subscriptions, so I guess that could work. Definitely seems like a glimpse into the future of what these services will truly cost once people are hooked on them.

I know of a corporate who has embraced Claude for doing documentation of their codebase to better use Claude to do coding on the codebase.

So Claude can understand the codebase, it needs to document it. Makes sense and is also great for humans because now there is uptodate docu on the codebase.

I don’t know how much it cost but the codebase, I’m told, is around 2 to 3 million lines of code.