alt Hacker NewsYes that plus having tens of billions of gulf money certainly helps you subsidize your moronic failures with money that isn't yours while you continue, and fail to, achieve profitability in any time horizon within a single lifespan.
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tock • yesterday at 7:24 PM
Huh what moronic failure did Anthropic do? Every Claude Code user I know loves it.
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ahepp • yesterday at 7:39 PM
There have certainly been periods of irrational exuberance in the tech industry, but there are also many companies that were criticized for being unprofitable which are now, as far as I can tell, quite profitable. Amazon, Uber, I'm sure many more. I'm curious what the basis is to say that Anthropic could never achieve profitability? Are the numbers that bad?
nh23423fefe • yesterday at 8:03 PM
your prediction is going to be wrong, even with all those caveats
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Also Claude owes its popularity mostly to the excellent model running behind the scenes.
The tooling can be hacky and of questionable quality yet, with such a model, things can still work out pretty well.
The moat is their training and fine-tuning for common programming languages.