A Quick Discussion on Premium Tools
Paying for an AI coding tool is a simple decision: it's well worth the money. A good AI coding tool will save you ridiculous hours writing boilerplate code, shell scripts, commit messages, and generating the commonly used files your project needs, such as a README.
It feels like you're giving up control, doesn't it? Indeed, we'll be discussing that in the next section. For now, let's review (quickly) some of the premium tools.
Claude Code
I have a subscription to Anthropic's Claude AI. It's $20/month and well worth it as I find their answers to be superior to other models.
Updated on Nov 21, 2025