> It chews through tokens. If you're on a metered API plan I would avoid it. I've spent $300+ on this just in the last 2 days, doing what I perceived to be fairly basic tasks.
Didn’t Anthropic make it so you can’t use your Claude Code Pro/Max with other tools? Has anyone experienced a block because of that policy while using this tool?
Also really curious what kind of tasks ran up $300 in 2 days? Definitely believe it’s possible. Just curious.
I offhandedly set it up to do a weather alert every 4 hours during the big winter storm. Absent a well-specified API, I can only assume it was repeatedly doing a bunch of work to access some open API it discovered.
Very much the LLM equivalent of “to bake an apple pie you must first invent the universe”.
To its credit, it did a great job.
One of my tasks is a skill that fetches my calendar via MCP and slots events into a JSON to be used for an OR-Tools constraint optimizer that finds a workable schedule for something. It then uploads those events to the calendar using MCP when I choose my favorite candidate solution.
I checked token usage for this task last time I ran it. It would’ve cost $29 in API usage with Opus 4.5.
So yea, you’re absolutely right that this stuff isn’t going to go mainstream at these rates.
Unclear what kind of quality you'll get out of it, but since the tokens are all local, kinda doesn't matter if it burns through 10x more for the same outcome.
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