When Claude Code first launched, its token use exceeded people's expectations of AI costs; people had generally not been accustomed to spending more than $20 per month on AI.

“yeah yeah i mean i think obviously like we have lots of tokens and but like i think that like you know what we try and do like like is i mean even when cloud code first came out you know like it used a lot of tokens relative to people's expectation of how much ai would cost right like no one was used to spending more than 20 bucks a month right before like cloud code came out and then you're like oh like you know like”