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dangoodmanUTtoday at 12:25 PM3 repliesview on HN

see that's interesting, because I'm prompting all day and I usually end up with 15-25% by the end of the week. I'm using Astra xhigh exclusively


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sauwantoday at 1:25 PM

Weird. That's definitely not my experience. On the $100 plan and I can burn my entire week's budget in a few hours easily with Astra. It's borderline unusable.

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ralusektoday at 8:29 PM

are you new to the $200/mo plan? I noticed that on a new account I was getting much more usage

viccistoday at 3:58 PM

People often use a bunch of subagents, poor context management (though Codex's tight context limits and constant compaction tend to mitigate this), a bunch of projects at once, etc., as well as not using workflows that do heavy planning once up front and then consult it rather than thinking endlessly about what to do during the implementation part.

It's also the case that working on massive codebases is just a different beast. If they've been slopmining a monorepo for months with 200x, then their codebase is probably Lovecraftian at that point and requiring extensive effort to iterate on.