You may want to consider the incomes of developers outside the US, students, unemployed. $200/month is a lot to a lot of people.

The point still stands. The chinese labs don't have super discounted plans, so if the price per task benchmarks[1] are correct, and we apply the discount, you'll actually be paying more by using cheaper chinese models and this technique.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/agents/coding-agents#artificia...

They can still write code.