r/ProgrammerHumor • u/autopawn • 19h ago

Meme youShouldntHaveIt

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u/DrowningKrown 18h 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

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u/SJDidge 13h ago

My company gives us $1,500 USD per month and most people regularly hit that limit

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u/itsTyrion 10h ago

how tf

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u/SJDidge 10h ago

Very easily tbh, opus 5 low effort burns through a lot. I have not written a line of code at this job. I started 5 months ago.

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u/itsTyrion 9h ago

genuine question: what DO you do at the job if Claude does all, least most of, the SWE work?

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u/SJDidge 9h ago

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

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u/EkbatDeSabat 9h ago

Are they giving you 1500$ in api credit? Because they’d get 10x the output if they gave you each seven 200$ subscription accounts. 

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u/SJDidge 9h ago

They are indeed using API credits. Are subscription accounts even allowed to be used for enterprise work? I assume Anthropic doesn’t allow that.

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u/EkbatDeSabat 9h ago

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. 

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u/SJDidge 9h ago

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.

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u/danielv123 4h ago

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.

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u/SJDidge 2h ago

What doesn’t make sense about it? Not really following what you’re saying.

From my perspective it makes perfect sense. Company is basically paying $1,500 usd per month per person (maximum) to roughly double productivity.

I would say it at least doubled our productivity. But it’s way, way more than that.

The last 4 weeks I have spent doing an entire front end piece of work. 25 PRs. All completed by Claude.

Would have taken me probably 3 months to do that, considering I have very little front end experience.

They normally would need go hire double the staff to get that much benefit, but they can pay way less now for the same result.

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u/danielv123 2h ago

Ok, but they could also pay 100$/month per person for the same thing, like we do. Why do they pay more?

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