this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
90 points (96.9% liked)
Technology
978 readers
1 users here now
Share interesting Technology news and links.
Rules:
- No paywalled sites at all.
- News articles has to be recent, not older than 2 weeks (14 days).
- No external video links, only native(.mp4,...etc) links under 5 mins.
- Post only direct links.
To encourage more original sources and keep this space commercial free as much as I could, the following websites are Blacklisted:
- Al Jazeera;
- NBC;
- CNBC;
- Substack;
- Tom's Hardware;
- ZDNet;
- TechSpot;
- Ars Technica;
- Vox Media outlets(including Axios, due to new changes related to trackers on their website);
- Engadget;
- TechCrunch;
- Gizmodo;
- Futurism;
- PCWorld;
- ComputerWorld;
- Mashable;
- Hackaday;
- WCCFTECH;
- Neowin;
- Jacobin;
- Yahoo;
- Freethink;
- Big Think;
- Newsweek.
More sites will be added to the blacklist as needed.
Encouraged:
- Archive links in the body of the post.
- Linking to the direct source, instead of linking to an article talking about the source.
Misc:
Relevant Lemmy Communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I'm not doubting it, but I don't think I could personally spend more than about $1.5-3k per month. And that's with like 12-16 hour sessions doing troubleshooting and RCA while it builds tools to dig deeper.
Aside: RCA typically takes me 15-30 minutes by hand and, subsequent to a recent major deployment, we're having thousands of incidents per day from like ten per week, so I'm faced with building scripts to read from a half dozen systems and collect maybe 100k Kibana logs out of tens of millions and then categorize them by fix so that we can feed those entries into scripts to repair data integrity.
I max out at about $100/day. That's about all the output I can review. Most days I don't use it at all but this month has been wild. I can't imagine what the fuck someone is doing to spend even $30k in a month. There's no way there's any human code review going on at all. I'm amazed by Claude, but it's not that good.
I know people at work that spend much, much more than this. They're what I'd describe as "fully AI native". Honestly I don't know how they handle it since it seems like a lot of work.
They have over a dozen agents, all using Claude Opus in fast mode. The agents have roles - for example, one for technical architecture, one for UI design, one for building overall plans, one for coding, one for security review, one for code review, etc. They run codemods (automated code cleanup and migration to newer APIs) using AI. Their backlog/wishlist tasks are completed using AI. They have several OpenClaw-style bots that respond to Google Chat messages, run periodic jobs, summarize emails, etc.
If you want an extreme example... The developer of OpenClaw is "spending" $1.3 million per month on its development: https://www.businessinsider.com/openclaw-peter-steinberger-ai-token-bill-2026-5. He works at OpenAI so of course he doesn't have to pay for it.
You could build a significantly better, higher quality product if you spent that much on actual humans...