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No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user

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Re: No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t get past all the LLM-isms. Do people really not care about AI-slopifying their writing? It’s like learning about bad kerning, you see it everywhere.

I think you're just hallucinating because this does not come across as an AI article

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Re: No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user

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> I'm fairly confident the Forbes sources are confusing retail API prices with actual compute costs

Aren't they losing money on the retail API pricing, too?

> ... comparisons to artificially low priced Chinese providers...

Yeah, no this article does not pass the sniff test.

Re: No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t get past all the LLM-isms. Do people really not care about AI-slopifying their writing? It’s like learning about bad kerning, you see it everywhere.

I think you're just hallucinating because this does not come across as an AI article

I see quite a few:

“what X actually is”

“the X reality check”

Overuse of “real” and “genuine”:

> The real story is actually in the article. … And the real issue for Cursor … They have real "brand awareness", and they are genuinely better than the cheaper open weights models - for now at least. It's a real conundrum for them.

> … - these are genuinely massive expenses that dwarf inference costs.

This style just screams “Claude” to me.

Re: No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user

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By the way, one of the charts in the article shows that Opus 4.6 is 10x costlier than Kimi K2.5.

I thought there was no moat in AI? Even being 10x costlier, Anthropic still doesn't have enough compute to meet demand.

Those "AI has no moat" opinions are going to be so wrong so soon.

Re: No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t get past all the LLM-isms. Do people really not care about AI-slopifying their writing? It’s like learning about bad kerning, you see it everywhere.

I think you're just hallucinating because this does not come across as an AI article

It was almost certainly at least heavily edited with one. Ignoring the content, every single thing about the structure and style screams LLM.

Re: No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user

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How confident are you in the opus 4.6 model size? I've always assumed it was a beefier model with more active params that Qwen397B (17B active on the forward pass)

Yeah that's a massive assumption they're making. I remember musk revealed Grok was multiple trillion parameters. I find it likely Opus is larger.

I'm sure Anthropic is making money off the API but I highly doubt it's 90% profit margins.

Re: No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user

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post #12
post #4

This is such a well-written essay. Every line revealed the answer to the immediate question I had just thought of

I can’t get past all the LLM-isms. Do people really not care about AI-slopifying their writing? It’s like learning about bad kerning, you see it everywhere.

People care, when they can tell.

Popular content is popular because it is above the threshold for average detection.

In a better world, platforms would empower defenders, by granting skilled human noticers flagging priority, and by adopting basic classifiers like Pangram.

Unfortunately, mainstream platforms have thus far not demonstrated strong interest in banning AI slop. This site in particular has actually taken moderation actions to unflag AI slop, in certain occasions...

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