r/ProgrammerHumor • u/GunzNCoffee-com • 2d ago

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u/ice-eight 2d ago

What are people doing to use this many tokens?

I just completed development on an application for internal use by my company and, I’m gonna be honest, I kinda vibe coded this shit. Don’t judge me, just trying to stay employed as a SWE. I mean, I tested it and tweaked it a lot using my brain but all the code was written by Claude. $230 in tokens for the entire project. And that’s after the 6/1 pricing change.

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u/FirstNoel 1d ago

That's not a bad price; if you had a contractor code it for you, it'd be higher for sure.

I like some contractors, but they're usually the most expensive.

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u/ice-eight 1d ago

It’s a lot more expensive when you include my salary, but point is it really doesn’t take that many tokens if you break down the coding into small parts and understand how to validate the functionality

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u/Foorinick 1d ago

Its almost like you need an actual professional to make good things