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Re:Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for ever... by jabart on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:46AM (#48434825)
I really don't now how these other code bases are structured. Our team ran cc-usage and our cost is right about what we pay as our monthly license. This is only those on the team pro side.

Our code base is not small, millions of lines of code. It does not take $65 in tokens to solve an issue. I'm running 3-4 claude code terminals at the same time and i'm still pretty close to what it would cost per a token for usage. I don't know what we are doing right with our code or claude.md to make this happen and I don't want to change it to break it.

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Re:Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for ever... by brianwawok on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:35AM (#48435257)
Also worst case. If it takes $65 to make one PR? I’m paying $100-$300 for a human to make one PR. There was zero math around the human developer cost saved.
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