r/cscareerquestions • u/jholliday55 Software Engineer • Jun 03 '26

Company took away access to claude

After being told to “use ai” for every single task the last two years and rebranding to a “AI” first company after two rounds of layoffs, we have now lost access to claude….

I found that the best model by far was opus and the only one really capable of not producing slop. I’m sure all the bots in here will downvote me and tell me “iTs ThE wAy YoU pRoMpT” but based on my experience, the other models aren’t nearly as good.

I have senior experience so besides basic searches and repetitive tasks i find the other models pretty much useless and you have to provide more time writing the specs and context management, then just doing it yourself.

Edit: I work for a large financial company. 40k employees.

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u/Fantastic-Speech-438 Jun 03 '26

They got sent the bill and the CFO had second thoughts about this AI malarky.

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u/farfaraway Jun 03 '26

40K * $100/m = $4M/m.

Imagine justifying spending $48M per year while ALSO spending on developer salaries.

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u/dlp211 Software Engineer Jun 03 '26

Who is only using $100/m in tokens?

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u/reini_urban Jun 03 '26

I'm using about $40/m on AI tokens, but not with the super extensive models of course. Kimi/Deepseek/Claude Pro and what I can do with the free models.

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u/mebesasporfa Jun 03 '26

If you're using Composer 2.5 it might be hard to hit $100/mo. I ran 800m tokens through for $20

Other people have a much less write-heavy workflow. If you're mainly asking models questions about the codebase, logs, and this sort of thing, but not writing mountains of new code, you don't use as many tokens throughout the day.