Maybe this just counts as “light use” since I’m a hobbyist programmer and I only run one coding agent session at a time, but I get about as much done as I did back when I was working while spending a lot of time browsing the Internet, etc.

I’ve spent $10-$20 a day using Claude to write code and closer to $5 a day now that I mostly use Deepseek and GLM, using API pricing (no subscriptions) since I don’t use Claude Code.

This is a rounding error for a company. So I think there’s plenty of room to use AI extensively while being more cost-conscious.