All 4,799 reports

NoClaude · 7 Oct 2026

A dev got chewed out, even after I warned him, because he spent over $2k in a single month almost exclusively on Opus while his actual productivity in terms of what he delivered was abysmal

Tsarbomb on Hacker News

spent over $2k in a single month

In the thread “Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: High token spend with low actual productivity output.

… Our company has been tracking token usage and models used vs output (tickets, story points, PRs, deploys, etc...). A dev got chewed out, even after I warned him, because he spent over $2k in a single month almost exclusively on Opus while his actual productivity in terms of what he delivered was abysmal.