It _does_ use up tokens incredibly fast, which is probably why Anthropic is developing this feature. This is mostly for corporations using the API, not individuals on a plan.

I'd love to see a breakdown of the token consumption of inaccurate/errored/unused task branches for claude code and codex. It seems like a great revenue source for the model providers.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. They do have an incentive to not get everything right on the first try, as long as they don't over do it... I also feel like that they try to get more token usage by asking unnecesary follow up questions that the user may say yes to etc.

I had to go to Max, Pro is more like a taster.

At work tho we use Claude Code thru a proxy that uses the model hosted on AWS bedrock. It’s slower than consumer direct-to-Anthropic and you have to wait a bit for the latest models (Opus 4.5 took a while to get), but if our stats are to be believed it’s much much cheaper.

I don't know, all I can say is with API-based billing, doing multi-thousand like refactors that would take days to do costs like $4. In terms of value : effort, it's incredible.

It does use tokens faster, yes.