During the golden rush, fortunes are done by those selling the tools rather than by those finding the gold itself …
😂 Oof, this one actually stings… “Mom, how did we get so poor?” “Your father spent our life savings on Claude code and shipped nothing.” As an early-career JS dev building in public and trying to ship weekly, this is the perfect reality check. AI is an incredible accelerator, but it’s no substitute for actually shipping. I’ve caught myself over-prompting instead of deploying. Lesson I’m taking: Use Claude to 10x speed, but protect that “shipping muscle” at all costs. Grateful for the reminder 🔥
My fear is that he did ship but... the bill was not from Claude, but from AWS.
But wife is still happy though ?
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Whenever he tried to ship something, he had to wait to get the limit refreshed, not his fault.
Kinda related Danish Roshaidie
This is what happens when you fight the rate limits instead of engineering around them. Build your own stack, own your own server, set your own rules. No Token anxiety, no rate limits, no excuses. The kids eat fine. 🍽️