PROS

• installation was easy through npm
• the initial ui experience is great and builds confidence
• starts by choosing a ui experience (light text, dark text, etc)
• Prompt telling me about being priced by api usage through anthropic console was helpful
• I like the cli tools browser link to sign in

CONS

• I need to choose the ui experience each time I start the app
• I couldn’t tell by the docs how I would pay for this, had to learn through the tool
• Didn’t realize that anthropic console and claude ai were two separate things
• I bought the tokens before signing in, thinking I’d need an api key with credits
• The login link gives me an “at capacity message”

Initial Experience

I bought credits before I signed in through the console and now I feel dumb. I gave a company a credit card over the internet, which is always risky, and then the product does not have enough capacity for me to use.

How on earth are they going to justify building out the necessary data centers for this to work how they want it to work but still charge a fee people will actually pay? I want to see that math to better understand how they or the other ai companies imagine this is all going to work out. I can just imagine 200 developers all uploading their 1M LOC tokenized code bases every morning along with the supporting information and how many GPUs that’s going to take, and it doesn’t add up to 20 dollars a month.

The energy that’s going to require seems extraordinary and we’re still supplying that energy at least partially through atmosphere destroying sources.

Even if we get there, whatever there means, the uses for AI will explode putting pressure on the gpu/energy resources.

How will we apportion these valuable ai resources for their specific uses? Through charging more until people stop paying, obviously, but at what point does it become a national security issue and governments decide that ai resources are a national security concern.

This is the most beautiful ponzi scheme. Get all developers rightly addicted to coding via ai to support building it out and then pull the rug when more valuable customers come along. Be sure to keep sharpening those reading and understanding skills!