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Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

#11
I wish Anthropic luck.

The company seems to be operating in a classic failure mode: being more concerned with its industry than its competitors and customers.

See the first few points here: https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/p/27-insights-from-three-...

Where I could be wrong is the CEO is technical, however most of what I hear from them is about industry and social impact instead of product.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

#12
post #7

I wouldn't expect Anthropic to have any special knowledge/insight in this area aside from the data they have on usage of their own tools. As such, I'd be much more interested to see some "Google Trends"-like data about Anthropic usage. Unfortunately, since AI is dynamic and competitive industry, I don't think anyone will be sharing information like that for a long time.

Honestly, simply releasing a graph showing the trendline of their own metrics on e.g. inference would speak volumes. They have this data already, 100%, its on some grafana dashboard the on-calls are watching every day. My suspicion is that some AI providers (OAI/Google) are watching these metrics go up-and-to-the-right quite consistently, but Anthropic's isn't doing that.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

#13
Seems like Anthropic has too much money on their hands and are looking for ways to spend it. It’s surprising to see lean AI startups accumulate fat so quickly. Usually this sort of wheel spinning is reserved for large corporations.

And it’s not just them. To me this trend screams “valuations are too high”, and maybe hints at “progress might start to stagnate soon”.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

#14
post #3

I ve stopped believing any of this PR from AI companies that are trying to justify their huge valuations with some nebulous societal impacts that we have yet to see any trace of. Stop talking about the damn thing and show me the thing

It's pretty great that the AI bros have gotten quieter now. It was frankly exhausting.

Instead of getting robots that do the laundry and clean the kitchen we got robots that do token work in a showroom at a BMW factory.

All the knowledge surfaced through LLMs was already mostly available online, they just make it more cohesive. It is better search.

Devs have figured out that creating a login page over and over is not a job, and that is now somewhat automatable.

Also everyone hates the name Devin now.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

#15
post #3

I ve stopped believing any of this PR from AI companies that are trying to justify their huge valuations with some nebulous societal impacts that we have yet to see any trace of. Stop talking about the damn thing and show me the thing

the entire premise of this economic index is that they're showing you actual usage and insights from millions of anonymized claude conversations.

As PR

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

#17
post #6

AI companies: But don't worry, AI chatbots will create a UBI utopia where we will not do any work and we will have a future that will give us more time back and would never have to pay for work or food again! /s Here's the reality: You are getting displaced. Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI screaming about AGI are repeatedly lying to you as they raise more money while Meta (who are laying off staff today), Salesfo…

I don't think I can eat the output of some AI chatbot...

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

#18

I wish Anthropic luck. The company seems to be operating in a classic failure mode: being more concerned with its industry than its competitors and customers. See the first few points here: https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/p/27-insights-from-three-... Where I could be wrong is the CEO is technical, however most of what I hear from them is about industry and social impact instead of product.

> however most of what I hear from them is about industry and social impact instead of product

Have you considered that, since they are a public benefit corporation staffed with people who left OpenAI in part due to more capitalistic pursuits, this is by design?

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

#19
Not really any surprises here, if you’ve been following this stuff. I’d be much more interested in understanding what is holding up penetration of Claude and the rest into medicine, finance, and law.

This may just be my ignorance, but it seems that distributed version control is a highly valuable technology which hasn’t penetrated that well into law. If this is true—my evidence is only anecdotal, talking with lawyers—then it should provide partial insight that translates into the problem of LLM adoption.

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