Have you seen a new sidebar from Claude Code? It looks great, but...

Dev.to / 4/17/2026

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The author reports that using Claude Code led to quickly hitting the token limit on the highest available plan within 15–20 minutes.
They argue that tokens are likely to become a major cost driver for their design team, surpassing expenses like office costs, Figma licenses, travel, and other software subscriptions.
The post frames this as a notable shift in budgeting priorities driven by token-based usage.
The author writes a personal note to future review, anticipating the possibility of reviewing a large token invoice later in the year.

I have to share what happened on the same day we started using it. We hit our token limit on the highest available plan in just 15-20 minutes of work :)

Which made me think. If today is any indication - tokens are about to become one of our biggest expenses as a design team. Not one of them. The biggest. Bigger than office costs, Figma licenses, travel, software subscriptions. All of it.

That’s a genuinely interesting shift. I’m leaving this note here for future me - just in case I’m looking back at this post in September while approving a $50k token invoice and thinking: well, you had no idea what was coming :)

Hope I’m wrong lol