What’s funnier is that typically the AI providers lose money on every query their customers make. So, this may have cost some company $500m to Anthropic, but it cost Anthropic a whole lot more than that.
Oh, it’s changing the world alright. It’s burning more resources than just finding some skilled people. It guzzles water and electricity and whatever it cost to make those wafers.
So, not a net positive since at some point, this may become a hellscape.
maybe they are planning ahead for the business model in a few years time, when nobody can do any work without claude, and they get to charge their preferred “monopoly enshittification” price?
What’s funnier is that typically the AI providers lose money on every query their customers make. So, this may have cost some company $500m to Anthropic, but it cost Anthropic a whole lot more than that.
Anthropic is projecting a half a billion dollars profit this quarter
What a brilliant business model.
They make it up in volume.
(Volume being how loudly they shout about how it’s going to change the world and dupe more people into investing.)
Oh, it’s changing the world alright. It’s burning more resources than just finding some skilled people. It guzzles water and electricity and whatever it cost to make those wafers.
So, not a net positive since at some point, this may become a hellscape.
maybe they are planning ahead for the business model in a few years time, when nobody can do any work without claude, and they get to charge their preferred “monopoly enshittification” price?
Absolutely this is the plan.
Proof? I’ve heard otherwise and you were first to make a statement