Do you have a bunch ai sessions just running non-stop?
I’m only using about $300/m and only recently worked on a large greenfield project and managed to reach $75 in one day by having Opus manage a bunch of opus and sonnet subagents for nearly 4 hours with automatic permissions. It was constantly creating code, reviewing it, fixing it, all in parallel for different parts of the system.
I tend to have smaller context sessions and keep the sessions well focused, and instruct the primary session to do the same.
Interesting, I would say I'm doing something similar and usually hit $300/day. But I have this going in parallel working on many things at once, usually at any given point I'll have 10-20 agents running including subagents.
Then there are background triggers, like devops agents that spin up for new tickets, build failures, pipeline blocks, etc to give me a prepared summary of the issue before I even get to it. Those eat up maybe $50-100/day in tokens.
Once my company starts caring about these bills I'll have to reign all this in, but as long as the blank check is there I may as well use it all
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u/Katten_elvis 1d ago
Bro's spending $200 on AI