I Spent $8,857 Using Claude Code to Build 6 Projects. Here's What I Learned. (opens in new tab)

I Spent $8,857 Using Claude Code to Build 6 Projects. Here's What I Learned. Not a sales pitch. I just noticed there's almost no deep-use experience with Claude Code on Dev.to or Reddit — mostly "look I built a todo app" posts. After burning through nearly nine grand, I have some real data to share. The Numbers 14 days. $8,857.62. 3.884 billion tokens. 47,235 API requests. All on Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context window). You probably think I'm insane. Honestly, when I saw the bill after week one, ...