Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget

FTA (emphasis added: Apple has reportedly slashed the daily AI spending limit for SOME of its own engineers, dropping the cap from $300 down to $200

$200 a day is not that bad. probably more than the majority of companies?

• klodolph · 16 minutes ago

  Yeah, my cap is higher but I don’t use it.

$ 200 a month and yet new releases of Mac are not upto the mark. Very strange

• neevans · 14 minutes ago

  $200 a day

• uvu · 13 minutes ago

  $ 200 daily, not month.

I use claude code $20 plan for the whole month, $200 is a whole year of that.

• solyin · 15 minutes ago

  Enterprises don't get to pay that plan. That's the consumer option. Businesses pay extra.

  • pixlmint · 10 minutes ago

    My "AI subscription" is just buying 20$ openrouter credits when I run out and it's costing me less every month then a monthly Claude subscription. 200$ a day is insane

• UqWBcuFx6NV4r · 9 minutes ago

  Oh… my sweet summer child. Hang onto that non-enterprise pricing for as long as you can.

So that’s a yearly budget cut from $110k down to $73k, correct? I could live with that. I’d have a hard time finding ways to burn all these tokens.

• zeroonetwothree · 9 minutes ago

  If you work 365 days a year which hopefully you don’t…

• boredatoms · 8 minutes ago

  Presumably they mean work days rather than all days of the year

That's a lot of tokens. I burn Opus about half the day and reach maybe half of that at most.

If $200 in API price equivalent it's too low. That's less than Claude Max x5 plan gives. So with $100 plan you'd have more tokens than apple engineer

• odo1242 · 3 minutes ago

  Apple is paying API prices, not subscription prices, though. $6000/month is half the engineer's monthly salary, it seems ridiculous to say that won't be enough, unless you're being very inefficient with token spend.

what's the source? ok i know everything is nowadays ai generated but come on?

I'm curious, what laptops do apple engineers get and are they encouraged to try local LLMs?

So they are paying approximately $6k/engineer-month.