So many negative comments here. Among my circle, it’s not uncommon for people to have multiple $200 accounts. This seems like it would make things easier for them by letting them use one account instead of juggling two or more.
What they’re doing with billions of tokens every week, beats me. But these users absolutely do exist.
>What they’re doing with billions of tokens every week, beats me.
What intrigues me more is how are they not done building whatever they were building? LLMs have been jaw-droppingly good for a good 6 months now.
The people spending thousands on LLM bills a month should've been done building significant chunks of Microsoft's or Google's software portfolio by now.
I guess what I mean is how is producing code still the limiting factor in whatever they're doing?
I produce a firehose of personal software and I still cannot max out a $20 plan.
There's nothing wrong with making really simple small scripts. I do that as well; I'm sure everyone does. However, imo for anything ambitious, $20 buys you about a day give or take before your weekly quota gets eaten. I've been able to burn that in less than a day with about 2-3 sessions. (No, my projects aren't even close to Azure in scale.) To avoid that, you would have to do a lot of optimization like having your frontier subcription orchestrate openrouter agents to do the actual work. I'm not even sure that's possible because my $20 sub burned with just analysis and not implementation AND it was using a lot of tools to offload deterministic work.
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What they’re doing with billions of tokens every week, beats me. But these users absolutely do exist.
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What intrigues me more is how are they not done building whatever they were building? LLMs have been jaw-droppingly good for a good 6 months now.
The people spending thousands on LLM bills a month should've been done building significant chunks of Microsoft's or Google's software portfolio by now.
I guess what I mean is how is producing code still the limiting factor in whatever they're doing?
I produce a firehose of personal software and I still cannot max out a $20 plan.
chaostheory · · focus · HN ↗
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