alt Hacker NewsI mean, the very first paragraph of TFA is describing who is under that impression. Literally the first sentence:
> My LinkedIn and Twitter feeds are full of screenshots from the recent Forbes article on Cursor claiming that Anthropic's $200/month Claude Code Max plan can consume $5,000 in compute.
That's claiming that worst case, a subscriber _can_ use that much. It's possible that's wrong too, but in any case a lot of services are built on the assumption that the average user doesn't max out the plan.
So the article's title is obviously sensationalized.