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How does Claude Code at $200 compare to their basic one, at $20?
by IAmNotACellist 1y ago
How does Claude Code at $200 compare to their basic one, at $20?
- franze 1y agowell i'm running claude code 24/7 on a server - instead of short coding sessions
- oblio 1y agoRunning on a server? As in, running it yourself?
- darkwater 1y agoMaybe in the "infinite number of monkeys writing Shakespeare" way?
- wellthisisgreat 1y agoI’d guess in a sense that it’s on full-auto most of the time with some minimal check-ins? I was wondering how far can you take TDD-based approach to have Claud continuously produce functional code
- slowmovintarget 1y agohttps://x.com/ylecun/status/1935108028891861393 https://x.com/ylecun/status/1935108028891861393 Error rate over time increases dramatically.
- victorbjorklund 1y agoCan you describe what kind of stuff you do where it can go wild without supervision? I never managed to get to a state where agents code for more than 10 min without needing my input
- unshavedyak 1y agoSame. I pay for $100 but i generally keep a very short leash on Claude Code. It can generate so much good looking code with a few insane quirks that it ends up costing me more time. Generally i trust it to do a good job unsupervised if given a very small problem. So lots of small problems and i think it could do okay. However i'm writing software from the ground up and it makes a lot of short term decisions that further confuse it down the road. I don't trust its thinking at all in greenfield. I'm about a month into the $100 5x plan and i want to pay for the $200 plan, but Opus usage is so limited that going from 5x to 20x (4x increase) feels like it's not going to do much for me. So i sit on the $100 plan with a lot of Sonnet usage.
- mwigdahl 1y agoI find I get a _lot_ of Opus with the $200 plan. It's not unlimited, but I rarely cap out (I'm also not a super power user that spins up multiple instances with tons of subagents either, though).
- unshavedyak 1y agoI tend to have two instances going at once often, but i'd be fine with 1x for Opus specifically. Mostly i'm quite limited on how much i can use them because i have to review them pretty hard. Letting several instances go ham for an hour would be far more code than i can review sanely lol.
- Aeolun 1y agoIf you use a single opus instance, you cannot really run out on the 20x plan. When you start running two in parallel, it becomes a lot easier to max out, but even so you need to have them working pretty much nonstop.
- unshavedyak 1y agoThat's crazy to me. Maybe i'll give it a try. I find the 5x Opus to be too little to be useful, 4x it seems still insanely small for $100. Wonder if you actually get much more than 4x?
- simonw 1y agoIt's exactly the same, but the $20 one will almost certainly run out of its daily token alliance if you try to use it for more than an hour or so.
- brandall10 1y agoThe token allowance is in 5 hour sessions.
- qsort 1y agoThe $20 one doesn't have Opus. (This might or might not matter but it's a difference). There's also a $100 version that's indeed the same as the $200 one but with less usage.