Programmer Spends Thousands on AI Subscriptions: Generates 1M Words in 5 Hours
vista8 · x · 2026-08-05
A blogger shared the extreme AI usage routine of a programmer friend, who reportedly spends tens of thousands of RMB monthly on various AI tool subscriptions.
Beyond essential overseas models, he purchased 8 accounts for Alibaba's coding model. Interestingly, his biggest compute drain isn't coding, but testing and mimicking novels—running models for 5 hours straight to generate a million-word epic. The blogger found the story's readability quite good, though the programmer himself maintains stricter standards.
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