This is 100% marketing for Anthropic. Think your monthly bill for the tokens you used is high? Rookie numbers
Export the data, dissolve the LLC, leave the bill unpaid and start a new LLC using the data, repeat.
I don’t think these AI companies have enough funding to take legal action without their part of the house of cards collapsing.
Are there legal ramifications for doing so many times? It feels … illegal? But fuck big tech either way.
This is the kind of snake eating its tail chaos I’m here for.
In my school, kids who said “I’m proud of an invoice” got kicked in the balls and it was good for them in the long run.
Mandatory: CEOe are like the village idiot who won the lottery. Don’t listen to them and stop giving them a voice.
Yes this is so obviously copium
Man, if the robots tried to take over this guy would really just drop to his knees and suck robot dick, wouldn’t he?
That’s insane. A company I work at leverages AI heavily across sales, product, engineering, etc.
Company of 50ish.
Nobody I know at our size or smaller uses it as heavily as us. I realize that’s subjective.
We’re sub $20k/mo.
This person is not using a tool correctly. They’re probably burning on inference. Probably inflated rules and context. Probably shipping slop and then fixing slop with slop. Absolute garbage.
From their website it looks like they’re “reselling” so, that’s my best guess as to why their bill would be so high
“Here’s why:”
…
Is it because you’re dumb?
It’s cause he’s a bot account doing marketing for Anthropic
It’s to “Swan AI”, so I assumed they were happy about the invoice because they’re reselling that service to suckers for a lot more than that.
Scamming as a Service
Always has been.
With a four person team spending over a million annually (potentially) on AI tokens is morbidly stupid.
That phrase alone should land you in prison.
Sad hbomberguy noises
That one is almost as bad as the videos that start out with DiD yOu KnOw
I would love another season or two of Silicon Valley to roast the latest techbro bullshit.
I think it would suffer from reality being so batshit insane that it would struggle to surpass it in any comedic way, just like The Onion these days.
Yeah, I watched Veep either during or after the first Trump presidency. The situations that were supposed to feel absurd felt borderline sane in comparison to reality.
If anyone can make it work, it’s Mike Judge.
It was an incredibly prescient show, too
Mike judge always delivers.
He working on anything else these days?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Side_Effects
He’s executive produces that show and does some voice work on it. I think it’s a really great show.
Beavis and Butthead and I assume the King of the Hill revival.
It feels like it already is.
My company has been jizzing themselves that our token usage has gone up.
I’ve never seen so many people rushing to add a middleman into their product dev.
You could have bought a small house with that kind of money 😅
I wish I lived where you do. Then again maybe not …
France, in a medium-sized city.
In London, you might be able to buy a shed with that 😅
You lot can afford sheds?!
Look at this guy with shed money.
Heck no. I don’t have that sort of money.
Tokenmaxxing
You could hire twelve senior engineers in Europe for that kinda money
But add another employee or 2, or God forbid increase benefits and they burn you at the stake.
My company is going wild like this too. I mean, it makes sense - more AI use means code is being written faster and thus we’re making more money.
But they go weirdly quiet when devs ask if AI has actually been speeding up the time to get a finished product in front of customers. You know, the only metric you should care about?
That’s an… interesting correlation they’re making, more code = more money. I know it’s not you personally making that comparison, but man is it strange. That’s a very business school way of thinking.
What good is “more code” from the LLMs, if I have to scrutinize it for bugs and vulnerabilities? More code only means more surface area, more points of failure. And of the AI I’ve tried, every single one writes far far far too much code. And all that time in code review, QA, user acceptance testing, that absolutely does not make the company more money - it costs them more money, in paying for labor. And it doesn’t get the product to the end user faster anyway.
I’m just ranting and this a minor point, but speed is also not the only metric I would care about. I’d also care about making sure the user doesn’t experience many bugs - preferably no bugs at all. The classic engineer’s triangle still holds: “Fast, Cheap, and Good: choose 2.” And AI seems to pick “Fast” twice. XD
More code only means more surface area, more points of failure. And of the AI I’ve tried, every single one writes far far far too much code. And all that time in code review, QA, user acceptance testing, that absolutely does not make the company more money - it costs them more money, in paying for labor. And it doesn’t get the product to the end user faster anyway.
Duh, just have the LLM do code review, QA, and testing for you! And then blindly ship it to production once that’s done.
Silly me why didn’t I think of that lol
I mean, it makes sense - more AI use means code is being written faster
This AI you speak of - is it in the room with us right now? Because if you mean to say LLM slop machines, then “code is being written faster” does not imply the code is in any way useful.
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