Wow, I had not heard of that project. I did hear about browser that doesn't compile costing a lot as well though.

@civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr from Baccula's paper:

When Brent started this project on February 16, he purchased a Claude Max subscription for $100/month. This subscription provides a fixed allocation of usage—not per-token billing—for both interactive sessions and the claude --print API calls that the task runner uses. The actual cost of this project is $100/month, not the per-token amounts shown in the task runner’s cost tracking.
The per-token costs reported by the API represent what the usage would cost at retail API rates: approximately $297 across 169 task runs with billing data (plus ∼$111 estimated for 31 runs without billing), and ∼$338 for 11 interactive sessions—roughly $746 total at retail rates. They are useful for understanding relative expense between tasks, but they are not what was actually paid. At retail API rates, the project would have cost over seven times the subscription price—the subscription is a much better deal for heavy usage.

@civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr $748 in less than a week!!!!! I get that they only paid $100 because of a temporary subscription deal, but holy shit... That's a lot of compute. How many guix subsitutes do you think could be built with $748 of compute?