well, the other reason is to avoid exposing your home IP to the DNS servers of the world.
using e.g. 8.8.8.8 means Google and your ISP can log your dns queries and tie them to your IP, running your own recursor means every DNS server you touch knows you personally looked them up.
> Even in a European with lower wages compared to US, total cost of a developer will be minimum 5000 euros/per month. And that's just salary with all taxes, not accounting laptop costs, office space, etc.
lolololol
> You just need a 4% increase of productivity to make those $200 worth it.
who “needs” that and who pays for it?
the employer for both?
high school economics class is not how the world works, regrettably.
I guess the world doesn't work like that because employers don't even understand high school economics.
They'd rather have an employee spend 2 weeks on a task than shell out a few bucks at it, because they don't realize the 2 weeks of salary is more expensive than the external expense.
Claude Code is much more aggressive at doing stuff than aider is (with sonnet and gemini) in both good and bad ways. You can tell Claude to do a thing and it might churn for many minutes trying to achieve it, while aider is much more likely to do a lot less work then come back to me. Aider feels more like a small sharp tool vs Claude Code as a bulldozer.
They both can just use api credits so I’d suggest spending a few dollars trying both to see which you like.
> without a novel implementation like that the monthly plan doesn't make sense since you can just use API, OpenRouter, etc.
what a weird reply. whether the monthly plan makes sense depends on 1) whether it does useful things for you 2) whether you'd otherwise spend more than $20/month in API credits (which is low single digit hours of it churning away, in my experience).
claude code is definitely...more proactive than aider with gemini or sonnet-4. claude code will just go and do a whole bunch of stuff, asking questions of you and of itself, even compared to aider in architect mode. it does seem to get stuck less often, too.
you can just use claude code with anthropic API pricing, so I'd suggest you just try it and see if it's better for you personally or not.
claude code churns away in a terminal, I have the git repository open in emacs with auto-revert-mode enabled so it reloads files if they're changed under it.
I view the files, and then review the changes in magit, and either approve some or all of them and commit them, or tell claude to do some thing else.
they are definitely not doing a good job on the release - that page doesn't mention Pro including it, and it's not actually available on Pro yet for half a dozen posters on this thread.
I remember needing a subscription just to authenticate with the Claude Code tool (at least when it came out) even though it spends from my API balance kinda felt like a scam.
I wonder how the pricing works out between using Opus in Claude Code pay-as-you-go vs the $100/mo plan. All I remember is easily spending $25 in a Claude Code session if I let the context stay too big. So maybe the sub isn't a bad deal.
using e.g. 8.8.8.8 means Google and your ISP can log your dns queries and tie them to your IP, running your own recursor means every DNS server you touch knows you personally looked them up.
it's important to decide your threat model.
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