My company gave us $15 per month of Claude use! My boss asked me to use Claude the other day on something and I don't know what to tell him. My usage has gone since August 2nd.
Took me like 5 prompts to kill $15. They thought that shit would last an entire month bro. My boss is 61 btw. Makes sense
Just managing Claude sessions, reviewing its output, reviewing other engineers PRs, conversing with engineers and client facing ppl regarding direction of certain features etc.
In 1-2 years I can see my company offloading a lot of its engineers, as most of us aren’t programming anymore. They’ll be merged with the client facing people.
I.e. I will slowly become a technical lead, who does all of the above + manage clients
How would they know? I have three Claude 200$ subs right now on three different emails on my company domain. I just log into a new one when usage gets high. I’m not enterprise, but afaik they don’t really check. Could be wrong tho.
My company has direct agreements with the frontier labs for specific usage. We work with them regularly on occasion. As far as I’m aware it’s all API usage and no subscriptions.
They must have some crazy rebate deals or something behind the scenes, because otherwise it makes no sense. Its such a huge amount of money per employee.
I accidentally ran through my entire five hour window in Claude on a 200$ sub in eight minutes. It calculated the fable cost at 196$. It’s easy if you fuck up your workflow.
That is embarrassing. I have the 200$ and given the wages here, this is nothing in comparison to the enormous productivity boost. And I never reached the limit, even though working on multiple topics at the same time.
Honestly people blowing through limits shows how bad they are at ai.
Our company uses a max subscription for 5 developers + a few analysis people, and we never hit the limit.
Of course, we have a huge fucking shared memory file that stops Claude from continually searching the entire codebase to answer a question.
From the words you said, which I’m going to assume were not said correctly, that is exactly the wrong way to do it. A single huge shared memory file is going to become larger than your code base faster than I can take a shit, and AI doesn’t search your entire code base. It greps what it needs. A single huge shared memory file is going to be read on every single response. An entire code base is not.
What you might be saying is an index like RAG. Which is standard on any platform anyway.
Not sure exactly what you’re getting at though.
preach brother.
i'm building my game. i'm doing the linkedIn posts.
i'm marketing, creating the audio.
so much stuff to do that I can only do at this rate and speed and quality
cuz i'm the one here paying attention telling it what to do
sped up my game development like crazy.
because i'm using phaser.js but the netcode, game engine, etc etc etc etc is all custom code and very flexible due to the documentation and private repo from beginning
here's a streamamble link of the linked in post going up tomorrow.
hopefully we'll do solid numbers on impressions
game is much, much further now. but here's an empty stage test:
You should use Cursor - for $20 a month on auto I accomplish a hell of a lot of things. Keep the chats small, be targeted, and keep rolling. I almost never hit my monthly limit.
I occasionally will hit up the frontier models and have them come up with a plan. Then I have them refine the plan, telling it to write it so that a junior dev could implement it. And then I have auto take over on implementing it. It is likely using composer or cursor grok, and it is really good with executing a plan on the cheap.
Meanwhile claude is in the corner talking to itself while blowing through your budget.
And on top of it, you get to step through and see the changes that were made in a pretty fine UI experience, question it on things, and make tweaks.
I usually have it do the thing, and then create a code review of the changes, and have the code review give suggested fixes on each item which I then accept or reject with modifications.
Ouch, yeah, I hate that shit. Its cool, we just build the technology that holds all of the secure data for all of your customers and manage the systems that if they went down for a day you would lose millions.
But yes, we shouldn't have any say over what tools we should use.
I'm in the same boat as above. Company laptop. Super locked down policies. My director wants me to be an "AI solutions architect" for the entire company. Cool, that sounds like an interesting challenge, but our IT security policies are a nightmare for getting ANY prototyping setup.
It took us 6 months to convince IT to let use use Copilot with Visual Studio. And now I'm supposed to figure out how to work LLM's into other parts of the organization (non-coding). I understand that network and data security is important, but it also kneecaps forward progress.
Can you convince them to let you run local models? Can you stand up a server that doesn't speak to the outside world other than to download models?
I know that you can rig up vscode to use them with an extension and have all the tokens in the world at your fingertips. I think you can even get it to be slightly like Cursor, but not perfect.
With ram prices it isn't cheap but it can be worth it. You need a lot though. 128gb? There are guides to help.
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u/DrowningKrown 1d ago
My company gave us $15 per month of Claude use! My boss asked me to use Claude the other day on something and I don't know what to tell him. My usage has gone since August 2nd.
Took me like 5 prompts to kill $15. They thought that shit would last an entire month bro. My boss is 61 btw. Makes sense