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A comment on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code. Parent comment

Re:Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code by Terretta on Monday February 24, 2025 @07:39PM (#43166709)
Careful -- a solo dev using it professionally, meaning, coding with it as a pair coder (XP style), can easily spend $1500/week.
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Re:Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code by dghlsakjg on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @12:06PM (#43185623)
$1500 is 100 million output tokens, or 500 million input tokens for Claude 3.7.

The entire LOTR trilogy is ~.55 million tokens.

If you are sending and receiving the text equivalent of several hundred copies of the LOTR trilogy every week, I don't think you are actually using AI for anything useful, or you are providing far too much context.

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