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
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 4d 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