I finally decided few days ago to try this Claude Code thing in my personal project. It's depressingly efficient. And damn expensive - I used over 10 dollars in one day.
But I'm afraid it is inevitable - I will have to pay tax to AI overlords just to be able to keep my job.
I was looking at $2,000 a year and climbing, before Anthropic announce $100 and $200 Max subscriptions that bundled Claude Console and Claude Code. There are limits per five hour windows, but one can toggle back to metered API with the login/ command, or just walk the dog. $100 a month has done me fine.
I had been musing over this. Will devs in very cheap countries still stay an attractive option, just because they'd be still cheaper monthly than Claude.
The cost on paper may be cheaper. But those options become less attractive when you take into account timezones, communication challenges, availability, scheduling, and the ever increasing coding performance of coding agents.
We’ve stopped hiring devs in cheaper countries because their quality of output isn’t much more than LLMs, but LLMs are faster and cheaper. Since we don’t really trust cheap devs to ship big important features, the market for the kind of work we allowed them to do has been totally consumed by LLMs.
the cost per token for ~similar performance is dropping by a factor of 2 every 10-11 months at the moment, so I am not sure. that said, I think devs in less expensive parts of the world are actually picking up these tools the fastest (maybe from existential angst? idk)
