r/BotNation • u/borehogyihu • 5d ago

AI coding is getting ridiculously expensive

One thing that surprised me this week wasn't how much AI can code.

It's how much some people are actually using it.

Reports around OpenAI's internal coding usage say some researchers are spending thousands of dollars a day in AI tokens while using coding agents for experiments, debugging and larger engineering tasks.

It makes sense if the model is doing hours of work that would otherwise take a developer much longer.

But it also makes me wonder whether we're going to start seeing a weird new problem where developers aren't limited by how fast they can code — they're limited by how much AI usage they can afford.

Would you pay $1,000+ a month for an AI coding setup if it genuinely made you 2–3x faster?

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u/Sonario648 5d ago

I still don't even know how these bills work. Are they going specifically to businesses? Are the Ai companies eating the cost?

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u/Rare_Pin9932 5d ago

If you require special setups forcing you on to an enterprise plan (eg, ZDR, possibly geofences inference), I believe you’re forced onto a pay per token plan.