Steve Newman: preference

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…Do you mind sharing your token budget these days or token spend? Yeah, so I don't know, which means it's small enough that I don't have to know. So I'm on the $200 Claude plan. I recently signed up for the $200 ChatGPT plan, mostly because I wanted ChatGPT Pro, not because I always feel like I tried Codex once like a month ago. I gave it one prompt. I don't remember what it was, one coding prompt. It behaved abysmally and I said, nah, that is not at all a fair test. Like, you know, update, you know, take that as a base update of 0.002. Like there's no update there, but I just cloud was working well enough that I wasn't motivated to push harder. But I'm really loving ChatGPT Pro. And I'll abuse it for the-- I signed up for it for, I forget, some meaty research question. But I'll abuse it for like, I'm driving up the San Francisco peninsula to meet a friend. My friend's taking public transit over from Berkeley. Where should we meet for lunch? Do a whole ChatGPT Pro's worth of investigation into that. And it's really handy, actually. But in terms of coding spend, It's all fitting within that. And I keep getting... I have Claude set to, like, purchase credits in $30 increments. And I've been getting the, You just purchased another $30 more often recently. Like, maybe I'm getting them a... It's up to two or three times a week, which is enough that I should look at it. I think that's mostly... generating all these summaries and stuff. And I'm really profligate, like I'm using Opus to generate these dumb little summaries and whatever, because like, why not? It's not that much money. And but I do have the like, if I hit my pro, you know, subscription limit, then like flip to burning API tokens. So maybe that's some of it, but I don't think so. The long answer, like long story short, I think all of my coding fits in the $200 plan. Yeah, gotcha. Cool. Any other tools you would shout out? You mentioned the superpowers, which I've heard of, but not used. So that goes on my to-do list coming out of this conversation.…

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