Disclaimer: I work at an AI lab [edit: but speak for myself :-)]

The value proposition is an average of 270 commits a day, for $4000/month, and the dramatic improvements to the game Yegge described. Even supposing 2/3 of them are burned on the scaffolding, 90 commits/day (assuming they’re of mostly good quality) would cost multiple engineers, one of which would cost much more than $48k/year.

As another comment said, the ultimate proof will be in the pudding. But I don’t think the value proposition claimed is complicated.

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cowpig 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

> I am spending the equivalent of $122k/month of API token spend, or about $4,000 per day, using 21 Claude Max accounts

That's ~$1.4 million/year

	▲	codethief 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Emphasis on "the equivalent". Further down he writes: > I am of course using sanctioned cheating: I get all those tokens because I'm an individual, with the Claude Max discount. So it "only" costs me about $5k/month out of pocket, for a 50-agent cluster running on a 512GB M3 Ultra Mac Studio I bought off eBay for $25k. > So it's not $120k/month of real money, but it's still crazy spend.