tldr: the author argues it is closer to costing 500 USD per month IF a user hits their weekly rate limits every week. Which is probably a lot more correct than

tldr: the author argues it is closer to costing 500 USD per month IF a user hits their weekly rate limits every week. Which is probably a lot more correct than other claims. However it's also true that anybody who has to use the API might pay that much, creating a real cost per token moat for Anthropics Claude code vs other models as long as they are so far ahead in terms of productivity.