Dev burns $100k of Claude Code in 24 hours: cheaper to hire a human?
dscape · x · 2026-10-19
Developer dscape shared that he spent roughly $100k using Claude Code to build a single feature within 24 hours, jokingly asking whether it would be cheaper to hire a craftsman to code by hand "like in the old days." The post highlights the steep token costs of heavy agentic coding workflows and raises a real economic question: at what point does AI-assisted development stop being cheaper than a human engineer?
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