Fuck AI

Some people will do anything to prevent having to do math. Part of my job includes counting tally marks from a sheet and entering it into a file. My coworkers use click-counters (which we all have because we use them for other tasks) and will sit there clicking the thing over and over again just to write down the final number. Meanwhile, I scan the page and use mental math to quickly come to an answer. I count twice to be sure, and I'm still done quicker than the click-counters.

It's funny, when I started I was given a click-counter and told I could use it for this task. I responded that I'd get too hung up thinking I accidentally clicked it too many or too few times, and would probably end up in a loop clicking and resetting the thing over and again because of it. They're tally marks, they're not complicated, it's much easier to just count them in my head than introduce a tool that will provide a new margin of error.

Yeah, the numbers are kind of crazy if you take the time to dig into them. I'm forced to use Claude at work, but the company has bought all of us in at the $200 a month tier. That subscription gives basically unlimited usage... assuming you stay within Claude's ecosystem (Claude code, basically).

However, if you want to use Claude with some other tools you have to generate an API key, and that gets billed by token usage (on top of the $200 per month). I know devs who are burning through $100 PER DAY on API usage, and I suspect their usage patterns are not at all unusual for heavy users. But even if it is, you'd still only have to be spending $7 a day in compute for the math on a $200 monthly sub to make sense for Anthropic, so it's pretty obvious that their subscription customers are losing them money at an insane rate.

I'm pretty sure even doubling the subscription costs wouldn't be enough for them to break even on compute, which is insane given how expensive a monthly sub is already. Once the VC money runs out and a sub price rises to $1000+ per month, the whole landscape is going to change extremely quickly.

That guy is assuming that the Government won't bail them out with borrowed tax dollars, which they will. Unless the credit card is already maxxed out, that is happening it's just a question of when, 37 trillion and counting.