I agree that ex ante it’s tough, and they could benefit from some mode of estimation.
Perhaps we can give tasks sizes, like T shirts? Or a group of claudes can spend the first 1M tokens assigning point values to the prospective tasks?
Take the response on another post about Claude Code.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442
This reads like even if you had a rough idea today about what usage might look like, a change deployed tomorrow could have a major impact on usage. And you wouldn't know it until after you were already using it.
