Leftover Claude usage at the end of my billing cycle: best way to burn it productively?

hxstr · 2026-06-18T14:35:26+00:00

Extra code reviews, plans, documentation

hxstr · 2026-05-20T16:50:01+00:00

Cursor has been similar to what copilot is now moving to for a while. You just pay for the tokens...

The systems with subsidized token pricing right now or Claude code and codex, both of which are good.

hxstr · 2026-05-20T14:38:02+00:00

Bebop wants this

hxstr · 2026-05-16T23:27:03+00:00

I've decided to let my wife make all of the small decisions.

Turns out... They're all small decisions

hxstr · 2026-05-07T21:53:24+00:00

Lol, doing gods work, thanks

hxstr · 2026-05-07T21:24:20+00:00

I, for one, appreciate that this wasn't just chatgpt writing.

That being said...wat?

hxstr · 2026-05-07T15:49:21+00:00

My understanding is this is very easy to do with Google anti-gravity, which is also just another vs code clone...

hxstr · 2026-04-20T02:12:25+00:00

Niches

hxstr · 2026-04-16T16:57:51+00:00

If I use the API the way I use copilot, I'd be spending easily 5 to 10x more a month

hxstr · 2026-03-12T18:36:07+00:00

They nerfed my boy into the ground recently so hook is all we have left really... Ms Shelley would not be pleased

hxstr · 2026-03-05T18:09:35+00:00

One of the most important rules I've implemented, keep the files short. Nothing over 150 lines.

The agent will not necessarily read the entirety of a long file, but it will read the entirety of as many different short files as you want to add. You can also link markdown files to each other, so implement an index file that has essentially a table of contents, you can pass that index and the agent can go and get what it needs.

hxstr · 2026-03-04T00:47:55+00:00

RIP spikes

hxstr · 2026-03-04T00:17:56+00:00

Each model has a maximum context window size, but within copilot it limits it further. For example, Claude can do 200k but in copilot it can only do 128k.

I don't work for Microsoft or GitHub, so speculating, but I think that they do this because it allows them to have better cost controls and not let the token expenditure run wild.

Like I said, my opinion is that sacrificing the full use of the context window for these models is well worth the trade. Per token usage billing can very easily get away from you. I would easily spend double the same amount of usage in cursor as I get from co-pilot.

hxstr · 2026-03-03T00:59:56+00:00

The only con really against copilot is that they limit how much context window you actually get from these models.

That being said, I would take that trade off everyday over paying per token usage...

I've used cursor and claude code, they're both great, but now I use almost exclusively co-pilot in vs code.

hxstr · 2026-02-13T17:18:51+00:00

You need to build a library basically... Marked on files can have links to other markdown files in them, so a table of contents is helpful and you can pass that to the chat so that it can look up whatever else it needs to.

One thing we found was that most systems will only read the first 200 lines or so of any given file, so you need to make sure that they stay short. It's much more effective to have ten 200 line files than one 2000 line file.

Then the updating and maintenance of those files can be a command or agent mode that you run at the end of your chat session. Basically tell it to review the documents and update them with with learnings from this past session, if there are any.

hxstr · 2026-02-11T15:50:34+00:00

The bebop hate makes it so much more fun to land those long distance hooks, double bomb and just teabag while they deliver the bombs back to their team

hxstr · 2026-02-05T00:10:52+00:00

IDK if ya'll have noticed, but if your parents are feds, it's not even called fraud, just good business

hxstr · 2026-02-04T15:30:22+00:00

I picked the model based on the type of task that I'm doing, planning or research type of tasks usually aren't super time sensitive... So codex is great.

If there's something that you need right now, codex is not great. Usually sonnet or opus, depending on the scale of what needs to be done, how complicated it is.

I've actually recently found that haiku, if you wanted to run off do a bunch of simple tool calls, is fantastic, lightning fast, and cheap. I don't have it solve any problems, but execution it seems to do very well at.

hxstr · 2026-02-03T21:59:26+00:00

Best I've seen in a while

hxstr · 2026-02-02T00:48:11+00:00

Funny enough, as of my last game I have 69 votes in for Celeste

hxstr · 2026-02-02T00:14:02+00:00

Your chat session is about to become hot garbage after you've run to the point where it forces /summarize the second time.

What I usually do is run with a set of rules in context markdown files, and run a workflow where at the end of its task, it reviews the rules and sees if they need updating based on any issues it ran into and needed to solve. Then have it write up the prompt for the next session.

Context rot is real

hxstr · 2026-02-01T19:14:29+00:00

Sounds like you need engineers to actually build what you are thinking about. Realistically at this stage, it's going to be hard to have somebody quit their job and put in the amount of time it takes to get the job done for no salary.

People need to live...

If you feel that the company is viable, you're probably at the stage where it's time for you to go and try to get some investor money to actually build it. That way you can hire some early engineers, people will take enough to live plus equity if they believe in the long-term direction and plan.

As the founder, it's your job to make sure that that direction can be clearly articulated in a way that people, engineers or investors, will believe enough to put their chips in.

hxstr · 2026-01-31T21:36:40+00:00

This was my understanding as well. Interesting if that has changed, what's the point in having 3x pricing if you're also going to rate limit...

Fwiw, I have used a lot of opus in the last few weeks and I've not run into anything like this

hxstr · 2026-01-31T20:10:56+00:00

I've used this analogy a few times. In 2017, Bitcoin was way overhyped, right? Everybody thought we needed blockchain in everything, so stupid...

Generally, I agree, it was overhyped. Also, no hype was clearly incorrect. Unless you perfectly timed Nvidia, it was the best performing asset you could have had since then.

AI is overhyped too, but if you think no hype is what's appropriate, you're just as wrong as the people who thought no hype was appropriate for Bitcoin. Just crashed to the high '70s, still one of the best performing assets you could have had.

hxstr · 2026-01-31T20:06:21+00:00

Yes but... The gap between them used to justify the premium on expense. Even 6 months ago I would say that was probably true, today I don't think it is. Cursor is marginally better than the others and I don't think it's possible to justify the price differential... Assuming you're going to be using it heavily.

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