two hundred dollars per calendar month

apologies to anyone who already read me saying this on bsky but: for the price of claude code, I could pay off my mortgage 3-4 years earlier. so as a notional labour saving device, it is competing with "four years of additional uninterupted leisure time", which I would say is a pretty high bar to clear

the idea that I, a pretty capable computer programmer, should pay *four years of my life* to people who make 10x as much money as me to ship the worst dreck I have ever laid eyes on, is just profoundly insulting, on top of all the other harm this shit causes