Are coding agents offering value?

Good experience with Claude Code on the web.

I pasted this URL Updated CLI tools into the UI, selected my dotfiles project and had a brief chat about including the updated tools in my default environment.

The result is fine so far - I’ve installed it on a Pop_OS machine that I use daily and MacOS soon. Real developers test in Production 🤨😉

I was running a couple of other experiments so couldn’t track the cost exactly - however it was no more than $5 (I think it was only one or two dollars).

This has continued an interesting question for me - given I could have done that myself what is the real value of this for me and others?

The convenience of chatting through what I wanted was clear and it was nice to not have to engage a high level of cognitive/logically control that these tasks can take. For me having a nice environment to work in is worth a few dollars.

I’m running a larger experiment as well - multiple projects with complicated context management of the requirements for one full stack feature. About to release the first whole version to a test environment - so far it has cost 50x the simple tools feature.

If it works then I will think that is good value. 😉