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@DavidAnson @siracusa Yes, a point Ed Zitron is always making is that the GPUs that they put in these data centers become obsolete and depreciate very fast.
(There is a whole side topic on why Uber wants to own a bunch of "robotaxis" that will also depreciate)
@nileane I'm very glad I switched to SSDs for time machine in 2024 -my time machine drive was constantly grinding and active even when it was supposedly idle!
But yeah - yikes SSD prices are nuts now. I got a 8TB samsung sata drive on ebay in summer 2024 for ~400 (which seemed like a lot at the time!) Same drive now new is $1200?! 🫠
@siracusa Claude Code like products are one of the most token-intensive applications since massive chunks of code (and essays) are being sent into the context window over and over. That makes profitability even harder - Anthropic started charging Cursor more and Cursor had to raise prices. (and both still lose money!)
@atpfm Using a web browser from the biggest advertising company in the world seems like a bad idea. Safari 4EVA.
@atpfm I'm not sure we are thinking through the long term impacts of "agentic" AI writing software.
None of these tools make money: Claude Code loses money at $20/month and $100/month. What happens when they start charging what it takes to show a profit margin?
I think these tools work when used by otherwise experienced programmers - there's a big risk that it leads to fewer good software engineers and then we have a lot of obtuse machine written code (often written in a language that the writer of claude.md may not know).
it's all fine for a low stakes dashboard, it seems fraught for production.
