even with me being pretty conservative in my usage now the cost is way higher
overgard on Hacker News
spending like $12 a day in january, and now I'm easily spending $60+ a day
In the thread “Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k”
Got in the way: Costs crept up every month despite constant workflow and conservative usage.
… Although I don't really want to test that with my credit card.) The funny thing is the first few months I was token-maxxing as hard as I could just to see how awful of a bill I could run up (mostly as a curiosity thing). At this point the novelty of doing that has worn off for me, but even with me being pretty conservative in my usage now the cost is way higher. I think I was spending like $12 a day in january, and now I'm easily spending $60+ a day in part time work. …