> Monthly API costs per engineer ranged from $500 to $2,000 as adoption skyrocketed across the company.

That's...not exactly a lot per engineer. It sounds like they just didn't budget correctly. Especially if the net of that work is more features that would have otherwise required hiring more engineers, which would cost a lot more than $500 to $2000 a month.

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AntiUSAbah a day ago | parent [-]

Its a lot. Its a lot for being able to generate that many tokens.

And i'm not talking about some genies 10x developer who is working with multiply git worktrees on x tasks in parallel in high quality

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phillipcarter a day ago | parent [-]

No, it's really not a lot at all, especially if you've got a mandate to maximize your AI usage, which many engineering orgs have right now. I burned $216 USD using Claude Code in March just doing some casual development on the side and certainly not as a part of any professional workplace mandate.

	▲	AntiUSAbah 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah guess what I use at work. Guess fuerther what the ask is? Exactly claude code, maximize AI usage.