alt Hacker NewsOf course it is for profit. Tokens cost money. Just the energy cost alone.
I don't understand this "analysis". Why would it not be about profit?
"Features for internal users" makes no sense here, as it does not apply to the case. "Useful features" is also debatable - LLMs providing user data upstream to Anthropic is a use case for Anthropic, but less so for downstream users and token burners.
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sirtaj • today at 12:13 PM
Not about profit in the sense that nobody sat down to say "let's add a feature that looks useful and burns more tokens so we make more money". For status update thing I can believe that.
I don’t feel like reality is so interesting that CC devs are sitting in a room theorizing how to extract the most profit from their users.
I’m much more inclined to believe they just don’t _care_ about cost, and profit is an ancillary benefit to their functionality above all else.
Just recently they released auto idle-compaction for large sessions about to miss the cache window. If they were so profit driven I can’t imagine they’d have built this to begin with, that’s free tokens from your perspective.