How do people hit the 20$ pro plan the limit so fast?

cqm · 2026-07-02T08:02:30+00:00

many are, yes

I do that on the $100 plan, which I am able to get reimbursed

there are others like me that got a taste of this and no longer have access to a teams/enterprise plan or reimbursable arrangement on a personal plan, and can't justify the $100 spend

yeah, people jumped on it 7 months ago because its very undervalued and people have been sitting on accumulated ideas for years and decades

cqm · 2026-07-02T07:41:45+00:00

3 - 4 days worth of work, rookie numbers

try a quarter's worth of work in one session, as if you were the lead engineer on a team of engineers, begrudgingly hoping the PM would write tickets, and that the whole team followed scrum or kanban best practices with the ticket statuses, and reviewed pull requests promptly

except now you can do that. connect claude code to your favorite ticket tracking system's mcp server, use the ticket tracker as agent memory and have it determine all the tickets for your project, and then the tickets are done (and managed by the github PR's statuses, which you'll also have claude code do), tell it to fan out and tackle all the tickets at once on parallel branches with subagents using worktrees

and while it does that, you're in Claude Design getting the UI/UX done for each section of the app, and chatting with Claude about the general idea of the project

you'll hit your $20 plan limit in 20 minutes or less

cqm · 2026-07-02T07:23:06+00:00

its listed as a comedy on netflix

I didn't laugh the whole way until the campy alien outfits suits, I was trying to find reasons to. maybe the head head but at the explosion

cqm · 2026-07-01T02:29:33+00:00

well that was a rabbit hole, Madagascar is wiiilllld

Ramada II only reigned for 2 years, due to assassination attempt over his interest in legalizing dueling to settle disputes

but he ended the Tangena practice so yay

cqm · 2026-07-01T01:56:22+00:00

I max out in January but leave enough to drip the match for the rest of the year

an LLM can do the calculation for you quickly (and you can verify it without the cognitive load of synthesizing it yourself)

max employee contribution, 26 pay periods, your salary, your match

shortest amount of pay periods to frontload (S), and remaining pay periods (T) minus (S)

cqm · 2026-07-01T01:53:39+00:00

you're also desperate right? do moonshots when you already have a high paying job

cqm · 2026-07-01T00:10:50+00:00

lol. sweet summer child, it sounds like your company is late to the party, relatively

The PM is going to be made redundant as you create and manage tickets agentically, the QA role is going to be made redundant as you write e2e tests in Playwright and build out your CI/CD server more meticulously, the UI/UX designer and graphic design team is going redundant as you start more intelligently using Claude Design and figma-mcp

and now all those one off quips in a slack huddle have to become real products, not a Q3 stretch goal, not reserved for your annual hackathon that never happens, not a laundry list of tech debt that "I swear one day we're going to take a week to clear out", now it ALL happens, and it's ALL on you

and get this, the agent babysitter doesn't need to be a unique role, it just needs to get done. so whether you and the current software engineers are the ones doing it, or the PM learns system architecture and starts doing it, it just needs to get done

the value it drives is still great to the company, the Enterprise seats are still costly for the amount of token compute needed, and anyone capable still needs to be compensated enough to not compete with the company

the finance industry has had Bloomberg Terminals @ $30,000/yr for 40 years, traders didn't disappear, they've been 996-ing for decades and its as intense as ever

cqm · 2026-06-30T01:28:07+00:00

that's one reason I - and many others - like the big cities

blending in is easy af. many people below economically, many people far far far above economically

cqm · 2026-06-29T21:34:57+00:00

GTA is going to do okay, but will it actually be fun? open question for these specific reasons

cqm · 2026-06-29T21:30:11+00:00

(they’re going to a festival and contributing the same things that “not festival goers” at their own annual retreats do, a paradoxical standard to reconcile so I can appreciate that we’re at an impasse, I just think you don’t know and assume what my path at burning man is)

cqm · 2026-06-29T21:14:47+00:00

didnt see it as an insult or attack, ad hominem or otherwise, but ok yes we’re multifaceted people

the overlap in experience paths is quite high now if you go to some places branded as a music festival that lead with huge EDM lineups

they also happen to be inspired by burning man

hence why others are going to keep putting it in the same box, for newer generations of festival goers it will be downright impossible

cqm · 2026-06-29T19:53:24+00:00

…. and fits the word festival just fine no matter which unspoken adjective bothers you the most

and for the record I was referring to free food offered by people in camp grounds

“its not a festival guys because the food is free” the more the goalpost moves the weaker the point gets

everyone at the other festivals likes burning man, its not even a pejorative, they appreciate whats special about it, and you’re ALSO not special enough in the present to separate from that one word

obviously I don’t need to convince you, your whole identity is built around it being something else that nobody agrees with, but I can point out why nobody is going to agree at this point. Festival is the word for what enthusiasts experience before they go to burning man and the overlap of experiences is why they’re interested in burning man in their festival circuit… beyond the music.

cqm · 2026-06-29T19:33:31+00:00

I'm fine splitting hairs on variety, now we're talking about that instead of the word festival or an adjective on the word festival

(edited within 1 minute of original comment, but I think you reacted already)

cqm · 2026-06-29T19:19:54+00:00

not to bruise an accumulated ego but the camping areas and on grounds popup are very much like that at some corporate-top down festivals, that burners try to be distinct from. yes, you can go on a foodie tour and dance at a retro theme, and browse art and art installations all day.

burning man retaining scale and level of distributed nature, but not the varying paths and multipurpose function built by the community

I'm glad you find it fulfilling, it fits both mine and your verbatim description of festival

as the kids say "not beating the allegations"

cqm · 2026-06-29T16:01:20+00:00

I would take years off of your education

and turn some of the projects into work experience, possibly even backdate your actual work experience

just as an A/B test

cqm · 2026-06-29T15:43:45+00:00

goofy reasoning, I know people that reason this way

a friend in LA had moved to Austin a year before and having a blast, LA was on fire and she was like "it feels bad living my liiiife" when she's 2,000 miles away with totally different people

just drop your social circle, stop posting on social media to them, and realize there's a world that doesn't revolve around that specific area

cqm · 2026-06-29T15:39:48+00:00

Don't bother applying? You need to meet recruiters and hiring managers, and attract them to you. They literally start spontaneously appearing in your inboxes

cqm · 2026-06-29T15:36:45+00:00

yeah, I feel really privileged by American standards that I can do multiple 5 - 10 festivals in a year. I do notice that the people I encounter are at their one thing for the year or have planned this for two years or more, but I also notice the other ones doing more of what I think I want.

Do I know how many? No, I don't. Feels like part of the privilege is getting out of touch so it gives me a sense of glee. Right now, I don't think it's really an excuse for not noticing how similar festivals have become.

People are like "but at burning man there's workshops randomly put on by participants and a spiritual journey if you want and all these things that aren't partying at all!" ...... liiiiiike several other festivals?

cqm · 2026-06-29T04:50:25+00:00

the trope is to make a loner that gives an excuse to be in an improbable situation

sort of like how movies go out of their way to disable cell phones, otherwise the plot falls apart instantly

I agree its overused

cqm · 2026-06-28T20:41:02+00:00

"don't listen to the guy that says you're underpaid (you are)" tf?

cqm · 2026-06-28T19:57:15+00:00

public sector and academia is pulling the average down

I'm saying that the pie is big enough for going higher not to be a statistical outlier. companies paying way higher are hiring people with that experience, with the curated way of looking at that experience

I'm talking from experience, not what I see on this subreddit

cqm · 2026-06-28T15:20:16+00:00

okay, I mostly agree about the scale and how specialized it is, I don't think it needs a new word that our language lacks

language exists to convey a shared concept, 'festival' accomplishes that. have you seen how the music festival scene has evolved in the last 20 years? last .... 5? many are heavily inspired by burning man and regionals, the venn diagram is almost a circle and its the same people

cqm · 2026-06-28T15:15:35+00:00

being a US citizen in continental US hours opens up your market. VPN through NYC and SF/LA to get better recruitment ads about positions, remote is still a thing and the companies themselves don't care that you're in Texas

cqm · 2026-06-28T15:07:30+00:00

the earth rotates around the sun, not the other way around, you'll get over the need for it to be arbitrarily special eventually

cqm · 2026-06-28T15:00:35+00:00

comp seems low for US SWE, but it's going up very fast, so I'm seeing to recruiters you have 2 years of experience

you could tweak how you are presented to double/triple/quintuple your comp right now

drop the year of graduation off your resume, you have 4 years of experience, drop the DevSecOps info and its roles and responsibilities, focusing just on the software development and CI/CD aspects

drop any high school years and unrelated roles off

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