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I was very bearish on AI to begin with, but recently I started experimenting more with APIs and building my own agents. And wow, I did not realize how heavily subsidized all the subscriptions were: 🧵 1/6

The $200/month Claude subscription I have is okish. Current frontier model capabilities are mediocre at best, but I can find $200/month worth of value here and there, so it's worth it for me. But, via the API though, I can burn $200 worth of tokens with a single prompt. 2/6

You can turn on otel logging and push your claude code usage to Prometheus / Grafana to see your actual CC usage if you are really interested in tracking that usage. It's proved useful to demonstrate to my friends just how subsidized this current set is.

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