$2k/m[1] is not something i could stomache for the quality i get from Claude Code, personally. I'm curious what your base number is for your 10x figure.

[1]: 10x my $200/m bill

How do you define your productivity? Are you astronomically richer and/or freer now that you're so much more productive?

> If there wasn't this fierce competition, and I had to pay 10 times as much, I still gladly would.

Just pay the excess to me and let’s pretend it costs 10x more then.

Great so how many of you are there to keep these cash incinerators afloat?

> and I had to pay 10 times as much, I still gladly would

That narration will make it become the reality at some point. Stop it please.

Setting aside my personal grievances with their vibe-coded slop products surrounding the model, the problem for Anthropic is that they do need to charge 10 times as much for model access, but can't because DeepSeek exists and can actually be sustainably served at $20/mo. LLMs are certainly here to stay, for better or worse, but the people going hundreds of billions of dollars into debt perhaps not so much. (Unless the US govt decides it's worth propping them up for access to a billion people's conversations and ability to influence them, which I do believe is a plausible outcome, but would not necessarily make for a riveting tale of capitalist competition)