Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent
July 7, 2025
How to get $1000/mo of value from coding agents
Obviously, simply spending $1000 does not guarantee you a positive return! Here are some practices that we’ve found get more value out of large thinking models like o3 and Claude Opus:
Source: Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent – Allen Pike
$1000 a month sound like a lot to spend on a developer tool. But it works out to be $30 day. No most developers cost multiple software this an hour so if it’s saving you even 20 minutes a day it’s paid for itself.
In my case it is saving me many multiples of that.
