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[–] burt@programming.dev 95 points 6 days ago (1 children)

we were given $1000/mo limits. when i asked if i could have the cash instead of using Claude i was laughed at.

It's almost as if you could not use AI and hire people to do the same work and actually save money.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 20 points 6 days ago

We get $100 a month and most never come close. Mostly use it for typing boiler plate and code reviews. It's autocomplete to save some typing. It can't replace your thinking or you're going to have a bad time.

We make financial software handling millions of dollars a day. Accuracy is more important than speed. You'd think a bank would know that...

[–] p12s@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 6 days ago

Nice, $24k a year to help someone get worse at their job

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lol. Inept people tend to need more tokens to achieve the same thing. Who knew?

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Also the opposite, people who know damn well what they want but are too busy to do their workload need more tokens to fix the ai's fuckery

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We get increments of $500, auto renewed until some threshold of a few grand per month

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

I mean I'm not a fan of Ai but that kinda makes sense to prevent expensive loops. An example being I know Google gemini has(and has had for several versions) a bug where it can get stuck repeatedly reading a file. I saw a video from a YouTuber which got stuck in this loop, it cost him 183 dollars in 40 minutes. What if he started it and then went home on a Friday evening? I just did a quick calculation based on it running 5pm Friday till 9am Monday and it would cost $17, 568 setting a limit to prevent this type of issue makes sense. Fun fact, by random chance there's exactly 96 intervals of 40 minutes over that time frame.

[–] Epp@lemmus.org 0 points 6 days ago

Ha! My monthly budget is $20. I do most of my AI assisted coding with local models, and use the $20 worth of higher quality AI for code reviews.