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Re:Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months by pretzel5297 on Friday May 01, 2026 @03:59PM (#47979490)
> If you can shave off an hour of dev time with $40 in LLM credits, that's $26.50 cheaper than having them do it without.

This assumes that that hour shaved was used elsewhere productively which is not the case.

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Re:Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months by everforward on Friday May 01, 2026 @04:34PM (#47979934)
Yeah, that's part of why I said I'm not entirely convinced. 1 hours vs 2 hours is an unrealistic example. I do still think it can make sense, but the extra actual productivity is probably more in the vein of "getting an extra hour on a 10 or 20 hour project".
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