I just spent $960 in usage credits with single prompt. It might provide best results (relative to other coding agents) but also I feel like quality of the output does not justify the astronomic price. I purposely wrote prompt that would take long time to execute and I knew it will consume a lot of tokens. This was kinda a test of how good/bad the model behaves in my project and I specifically gave it a tasks that I knew opus 4.8 would fail or had difficulties. At this point It’s just more expensive than human worker and gives barely okay results. Maybe it can speedrun the task in few hours instead of few days I would spend doing it myself. But paying 960 for first iteration that needs corrections anyway is way too much for me and my company to find it useful. Are there any use cases where spending this much on a coding agent actually makes sense? submitted by /u/ApeInTheAether
Originally posted by u/ApeInTheAether on r/ClaudeCode