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How much does a two-hour call with your AI tool use up?
My co-host Nico Lafakis has been using Dots, and he said the call part does draw on his usage, "but it's not much." His measure, as he reported it: "I just finished a two-hour session, right, call, and I'm down to 99%." It was at 100 when that call started.
The bigger change for him is how he works. "I haven't touched the IDE in a minute," he said, meaning the code editor. And: "wow, I bought all these monitors for nothing."
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