alt Hacker NewsAnthropic is a bit nuts, I had $260 of credits on my max account for the extra usage the other night. It was expiring, so I figured I'll fire up an agentic swarm to deep dive and make some deep changes to some old cold bases.. literally 25 minutes or less, $260 burnt, it didn't get get into the implementation, just wrote a ton of useless plans for the most part. It really opened my eyes to what they expect to charge people.. wayyyy overpriced.
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And at that cost they're still not profitable. It's going to be a bumpy road ahead...
It’s crazy how different the credit cost and subscription cost are.
With the $200 subscription, I can have Fable on ultracode working for hours and not dent the usage limits.
> wayyy overpriced
Maybe they consider that hiring a person to do it would have cost at least as much and taken much more time, so paying them is a bargain.
You should just spend those towards a cursor subscription.
I managed to lose around $300 in credits I had saved for some emergency /fast sessions the following way: switch to Fable. Work on the design. Downgrade to Opus for the build. If any of other parallel Opus session has /fast enabled it seems to enable it for the newly spawned session by default. Before I knew it, the $300 was gone. I think the bug is now solved, but it was rather unpleasant. I dont ever remember bugs that would drain my wallet - with claude code its just another Tuesday. Still love it.