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remuslast Monday at 4:02 PM1 replyview on HN

> Sure, but how is OpenAI, and Claude handling the increased usage?

By spending tens of billions in investor cash. It is not clear what a sustainable business model looks like for these companies at the moment.

> They are handling it a lot better than Github.

Are they? Anthropic has fairly frequent issues.

There's high growth and then there's demand increasing 10x in a year. For a mature business like github that's a massive, and I can't think of many big businesses who would be able to scale smoothly to accommodate that kind of demand.


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mixmastamyktoday at 12:12 AM

Yes, OAI is losing tens of billions, Anthro is losing billions, and MS is cashflow positive and rewarded for that by Wall St, according to recent earnings reports.