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consumer451yesterday at 9:09 PM7 repliesview on HN

It is very difficult for me to see any amount of money being thrown at Anthropic as a bad idea.

The amount of new revenue that I am personally able to create for my clients, using Claude models for dev, and Claude models inside the insanely agile products delivered, is astounding.

If I was not currently experiencing this myself, and someone told me that this was possible, I would be calling them names.


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zakisaadyesterday at 9:46 PM

You could say the same about Codex (and other tooling). Opus as a model is market leading (trading blows with the greatest that OpenAI is peddling), but there will be a reckoning when open weight models are good enough - and I'd argue we are almost there with some of the latest releases. If you hook up the latest OpenAI models to something like OpenCode, its a taste of what an open harness with a powerful model (outside of a providers ecosystem) will be able to offer developers in the future.

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james2doyleyesterday at 11:45 PM

You’re paying the subsidized cost. Those margins will shrink once the real bill comes due. I really think everyone will look back at this time as the golden area of cheap AI. We are already seeing the costs (and restrictions/limits) creep up with the Western models.

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ManuelKiesslingyesterday at 11:10 PM

Would you mind sharing what you can and want about how the sausage is made? I would love to hear concrete cases where actual leverage is measurable. I‘m asking in good faith, not to attack your standpoint.

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giptoday at 2:44 AM

Same with Codex and very soon with open source & local models. Training great models (for coding and similar tasks) seems to be a question of scale and not much more.

It is likely that 99% of the value created by Anthropic / OpenAI / friends will go the end user. Which is great news.

buntptoday at 6:38 AM

Curious, what do you do btw?

slopinthebagyesterday at 10:19 PM

Why do AI boosters like yourself all have the same writing style? Was the comment AI generated?

It's like insane hype marketing speak. "insanely agile products delivered" like huh?

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zrn900today at 12:23 PM

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