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1. theropost · 1786045967 · focus · HN ↗

   Anthropic is a bit nuts, I had $260 of credits on my max account for the extra usage the other night. It was expiring, so I figured I'll fire up an agentic swarm to deep dive and make some deep changes to some old cold bases.. literally 25 minutes or less, $260 burnt, it didn't get get into the implementation, just wrote a ton of useless plans for the most part. It really opened my eyes to what they expect to charge people.. wayyyy overpriced.

   1. mikae1 · 1786047217 · focus · HN ↗

      And at that cost they're still not profitable. It's going to be a bumpy road ahead...

      1. arrowleaf · 1786048024 · focus · HN ↗

         I thought they are making a profit on API pricing? A quick Google shows somewhere between 50-70% margins on API inference.

         1. bakugo · 1786048508 · focus · HN ↗

            API pricing is almost definitely profitable, but at this point I assume it's a small minority of their inference traffic compared to subscription usage, and unlikely to make up for the rest of their expenses on its own.

            1. enedil · 1786058686 · focus · HN ↗

               [delayed]

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