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Yes, this is a paid comment, in the sense that it's probably a bot. 22 day old account, with 1 post, praising Claude. For more than a year, Anthropic has engag

Yes, this is a paid comment, in the sense that it's probably a bot. 22 day old account, with 1 post, praising Claude. For more than a year, Anthropic has engaged in an extensive guerrilla marketing effort on Reddit and similar developer-oriented platforms, aiming to persuade users that Claude significantly outperforms competitors in programming tasks, even though nearly all benchmarks indicate otherwise.

christophilus 1y ago
Well, I’m not a paid comment, and I agree 100% with the op, and have the exact same experience. I haven’t touched Cursor since paying for Claude Code (max or whatever the $100/mo plan is). That said, I never found Cursor very useful. Claude Code was useful out of the gate, so my experience may not be typical.
- matei88 1y ago
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  - JBiserkov 1y ago
    Saved you a click: user: christophilus created: October 16, 2014 karma: 11683
    - fkyoureadthedoc 1y ago
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      - deleted 1y ago
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      - zolland 1y ago
        Your comment is fading, are jokes not allowed on HN?
        fkyoureadthedoc 1y ago
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        zarzavat 1y ago
        Jokes are allowed as long as they are funny. It's a tough crowd.
    - ignoramous 1y ago
      Interesting that karma points can dispel such doubts. I presume there is no market for hn influencers?
      - JKCalhoun 1y ago
        I will (not) let you know when someone offers me money to push their product on HN. ;-)
- sarmasamosarma 1y ago
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- lmeyerov 1y ago
  I recently wrote a 5+ page internal guide on how I do vibe coding and one of the first sections is cost Keep in mind much of the guide is about how to move from 30s chats to doing concurrent 20min+ runs ---- Spending Claude Code $$$ - Max Plan FTW TL;DR: Start with Claude Max Pro at $100/mo. I was about $70/day starting day 2 via the pay-as-you-go plan. I bought in $25 increments to help pace. The Max Plan ($100/mo) became attractive around day 2-3, and on week 2 I shifted to $200/mo. Annoyingly, you have to make the plan decision during your first login to Claude Code, which is confusing as I wanted to trial on pay-as-you-go. (That was a mistake: do Max Pro.) The upgrade flow is pretty broken from this perspective. The Max Plan at the $100/mo level has a cooldown of 22 question / 5 hour: That does go by fast when your questions are small and get interrupted, or you get good at multitasking. By the time you are serious, the $200/mo is fine. Other vibe IDEs & LLM providers $$$ I did anywhere from about 50K to 200K tokens a day on Claude 3.7 Sonnet during week 1 on pay-as-you-go, with about a ratio of 300:1 of tokens in:out. Max Plan does not report usage, but for periods I am using it, I expect my token counts to now be higher as I have gotten much better at doing long runs. The equivalent in OpenAI of using gp4-4o and o3 would be $5-40/day on pay-as-you-go, which seems cheaper for using frontier models… until Max Pro gets factored in. Capping costs Not worrying about overages is typically liberating. Max Pro helps a lot here. One of my next experiments is seeing about self-hosting of reasoning models for other AI IDEs. Max Pro goes far, but to do automation and autonomy, and bigger jobs, you need more power.
owebmaster 1y ago
Creating a post that convincingly appears human on HN probably is considered a benchmark task there
sixhobbits 1y ago
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- zarzavat 1y ago
  I believe that's talking about general insinuations, e.g. "you're just a russiabot" and the like. The GP account above with only one comment that is singing the praises of a particular product is obviously fake. They even let the account age a bit so that wouldn't show up as a green account.
  - i_have_an_idea 1y ago
    The most alarming to me thing is that it seems to be happening at scale. This is one of dozens similar posts I've seen all over the programming communities with similar characteristics (high praise, new-ish accounts, little if any other activity).
- apwell23 1y ago
  seems justified in this case

christophilus 1y ago

Well, I’m not a paid comment, and I agree 100% with the op, and have the exact same experience. I haven’t touched Cursor since paying for Claude Code (max or whatever the $100/mo plan is). That said, I never found Cursor very useful. Claude Code was useful out of the gate, so my experience may not be typical.

matei88 1y ago
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- JBiserkov 1y ago
  Saved you a click: user: christophilus created: October 16, 2014 karma: 11683
  - fkyoureadthedoc 1y ago
    [flagged]
    - deleted 1y ago
      [deleted]
    - zolland 1y ago
      Your comment is fading, are jokes not allowed on HN?
      - fkyoureadthedoc 1y ago
        [flagged]
      - zarzavat 1y ago
        Jokes are allowed as long as they are funny. It's a tough crowd.
  - ignoramous 1y ago
    Interesting that karma points can dispel such doubts. I presume there is no market for hn influencers?
    - JKCalhoun 1y ago
      I will (not) let you know when someone offers me money to push their product on HN. ;-)
sarmasamosarma 1y ago
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lmeyerov 1y ago
I recently wrote a 5+ page internal guide on how I do vibe coding and one of the first sections is cost Keep in mind much of the guide is about how to move from 30s chats to doing concurrent 20min+ runs ---- Spending Claude Code $$$ - Max Plan FTW TL;DR: Start with Claude Max Pro at $100/mo. I was about $70/day starting day 2 via the pay-as-you-go plan. I bought in $25 increments to help pace. The Max Plan ($100/mo) became attractive around day 2-3, and on week 2 I shifted to $200/mo. Annoyingly, you have to make the plan decision during your first login to Claude Code, which is confusing as I wanted to trial on pay-as-you-go. (That was a mistake: do Max Pro.) The upgrade flow is pretty broken from this perspective. The Max Plan at the $100/mo level has a cooldown of 22 question / 5 hour: That does go by fast when your questions are small and get interrupted, or you get good at multitasking. By the time you are serious, the $200/mo is fine. Other vibe IDEs & LLM providers $$$ I did anywhere from about 50K to 200K tokens a day on Claude 3.7 Sonnet during week 1 on pay-as-you-go, with about a ratio of 300:1 of tokens in:out. Max Plan does not report usage, but for periods I am using it, I expect my token counts to now be higher as I have gotten much better at doing long runs. The equivalent in OpenAI of using gp4-4o and o3 would be $5-40/day on pay-as-you-go, which seems cheaper for using frontier models… until Max Pro gets factored in. Capping costs Not worrying about overages is typically liberating. Max Pro helps a lot here. One of my next experiments is seeing about self-hosting of reasoning models for other AI IDEs. Max Pro goes far, but to do automation and autonomy, and bigger jobs, you need more power.

owebmaster 1y ago

Creating a post that convincingly appears human on HN probably is considered a benchmark task there

sixhobbits 1y ago

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

zarzavat 1y ago
I believe that's talking about general insinuations, e.g. "you're just a russiabot" and the like. The GP account above with only one comment that is singing the praises of a particular product is obviously fake. They even let the account age a bit so that wouldn't show up as a green account.
- i_have_an_idea 1y ago
  The most alarming to me thing is that it seems to be happening at scale. This is one of dozens similar posts I've seen all over the programming communities with similar characteristics (high praise, new-ish accounts, little if any other activity).
apwell23 1y ago
seems justified in this case