Cost me almost nothing in inference time (I have the monthly subscription), although if I had been paying myself at consulting rates it would have cost a few th

Cost me almost nothing in inference time (I have the monthly subscription), although if I had been paying myself at consulting rates it would have cost a few thousand for my time "LLM whispering" :) For clarity: I wasn't running the LLM for a month solid. I was on vacation in New Zealand -- I'd fire up the laptop in the AirBnB most nights and make Claude add a couple features, fix some bugs. Repeat rinse. I find that it's uncannily like running a team of eager but not too experienced engineers: those humans would also show up claiming to have "finished". I'd say "well does it run so and so test ok?". They'd go away, come back a few days later... The LLM acts much the same. You have to keep it on a short leash but when it gets cracking on a problem it's amazing to watch. E.g. I saw it write countless test programs on the fly to diagnose a parser hang bug. It would try this and that, binary chopping on the problematic source file. If I was doing that myself I'd need a few strong coffees before diving in.