I shouldn't have said unlimited but the plans are right here:
https://claude.com/pricing
If you blow through the $200 plan in a month then you should at least be pulling profit from what you're doing. I use my $100/month plan nonstop and have only capped out at about 80% usage.
If you're spending $5k a month you are literally retarded or for some reason using API usage rates.
To be clear I am talking individual plans
I think you're mischaracterizing what I said.
When I say that "blowing $5k on tokens" I'm talking about all of these application rewrites. Like Discord's recent attempt to rewrite in Rust or the infamous Bun rewrite in Rust. People are spending a lot of money on tokens to perform the work quickly. Yes, I know, you or I could pay $20 or $200 and have limits that we can hit several times a day and have to wait on resets. If you want something done quickly, you must use the API, and the API costs money.
If someone wanted to brute force AI recompile Zelda, they could do it quickly - although they would need to spend a lot of money. What I'm saying is that is soon to no longer be the case. You could have a project (like said project on github) where 55+ people have PRs against it. No individual will need to spend $5k anymore to reduce the time it takes. You can crowd source it with a bunch of people on the $20/mo plan. Normal people.
Another thought exercise. A few people here are constantly making games or working towards making games. What if, instead, we group together and outline (assisted by AI tools of course) a project plan, split things up to tasks, have it all laid out as github issues. Then your group (us, FoH, for example) then look at said issue list, and we have 20 people that each take 5 issues a day and work on them. Nobody individual is out of pocket more than $20/mo. You will be able to move as quickly as you can manage a project, approve PRs, and resolve merge conflicts.
Happy crowd source vibin'.
Edit: I'll add a pointed statement, because we're here, we love it, and we love each other.
Noodleface
if you think one person built NX2Navi in the past 4 days on a $20/mo or $200/mo plan you're a fucking idiot.