We pay by token at work. I just finished one session with Opus that was 4000 dollars. In about three days.

Now that 200USD subscription starts to feel cheap...

zozbot234 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That would be about ~300 tok/s over 72 hours at Claude Fable output token prices? I'm not sure that this passes a sanity test.

	▲	unholiness an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Subagents are a helluva drug.

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esafak 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's the price of several engineers!

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rubyn00bie 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just outta curiosity, as I’ve never gotten a spend anywhere near that, what variant were you using? Like max context window and fast mode? Or was it just chugging along non stop for three days?

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pimeys an hour ago | parent [-]

Fast mode max content window. The task was: replace all 1600+ queries from one database to another and make the whole integration test pass. We did multiple passes, with different concerns when changing from database to another. My OpenCode session right now says $4,365.02.

I haven't gotten close to this either before, but now we wanted to move fast because this branch gets conflicts all the time and we want to get over with the migration asap.

	▲	rglullis 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's a bit of a left field question, but I am curious: Let's say that if the company wasn't paying the whole bill but only subsidizing it - e.g, if it paid 90% of the $4000. What would you do?