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MixedClaude · 9 Nov 2026

My dev workflow in my full-time job (Opus 5.5, 5 concurrent worktrees with human checking results and giving instructions) spend exactly $200/day on average

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spend exactly $200/day on average

In the thread “Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Budget cap forces moving AI usage to weekends

It's kinda borderline. My dev workflow in my full-time job (Opus 5.5, 5 concurrent worktrees with human checking results and giving instructions) spend exactly $200/day on average. I imagine it could be more friendly if it's $300, as otherwise I might have to move some of my AI usage to weekends, which implicitly increases working hours :[