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mylies43yesterday at 5:47 PM1 replyview on HN

Well its def not $0.05, I just started using claude sonnet 5 and Ive found most simple questions might be 0.05 cents, a unit test is something like 0.10 -> 0.20 and small features and classes get into the individual dollars. Sure its a lot faster but at the end of the day its not cheap.

Plus there is something to say about being in the drivers seat, youll have a much better idea of how it works instead of needing to talk to claude and hope its correct. Since most LLMs also not very good at ideas even in my experience with better models its better to think for 10mins, youll get a much high quality result


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biophysboyyesterday at 6:14 PM

Yes, they can’t magically resolve ambiguities in the prompt. Hence it is better to make something clear at the outset