That's helpful to know, thanks! I gave Max 5x a go and didn't look back. My suspicion is that Opus 4.5 is subsidised, so good to know there's flexibility if prices go up.

The $20 plan for CC is good enough for 10-20 minutes of opus every 5h and you’ll be out of your weekly limit after 4-5 days if you sleep during the night. I wouldn’t be surprised if Anthropic actually makes a profit here. (Yeah probably not, but they aren’t burning cash.)

The problem with current approaches is the lack of feedback loops with independent validators that never lose track of the acceptance criteria. That's the next level that will truly allow no-babysitting implementatons that are feature complete and production grade. Check out this repo that offers that: https://github.com/covibes/zeroshot/