Drew Dawson spent $449 on his AI subscriptions in May. He's also a college junior. The 23-year-old isn't some mega-coder, burning through tokens to build heaps of software. He's not a computer science major; Dawson studies philosophy, politics, and economics at the University of Southern California. Rather, Dawson has a variety of income streams, from a college prep program to gigs on UpWork . He uses the Claude Max plan to help complete those tasks, though he recently switched to ChatGPT Pro.