Export the data, dissolve the LLC, leave the bill unpaid and start a new LLC using the data, repeat.
I don't think these AI companies have enough funding to take legal action without their part of the house of cards collapsing.
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This is the kind of snake eating its tail chaos I'm here for.
Are there legal ramifications for doing so many times? It feels ... illegal? But fuck big tech either way.
In my school, kids who said "I'm proud of an invoice" got kicked in the balls and it was good for them in the long run.
"Here's why:"
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Is it because you're dumb?
It's cause he's a bot account doing marketing for Anthropic
It's to "Swan AI", so I assumed they were happy about the invoice because they're reselling that service to suckers for a lot more than that.
With a four person team spending over a million annually (potentially) on AI tokens is morbidly stupid.
They are reselling it, so it's their clients who are actually spending the money. Meanwhile their 4 person team is earning all the margin.
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That's insane. A company I work at leverages AI heavily across sales, product, engineering, etc.
Company of 50ish.
Nobody I know at our size or smaller uses it as heavily as us. I realize that's subjective.
We're sub $20k/mo.
This person is not using a tool correctly. They're probably burning on inference. Probably inflated rules and context. Probably shipping slop and then fixing slop with slop. Absolute garbage.
Their company is providing AI tooling, and the clients are paying for it from what I can see. He's "proud of the invoice" because his company is earning a margin on effectively reselling it. The more they paid Anthropic the more their profit was.
From their website it looks like they're "reselling" so, that's my best guess as to why their bill would be so high
Man, if the robots tried to take over this guy would really just drop to his knees and suck robot dick, wouldn't he?
I would love another season or two of Silicon Valley to roast the latest techbro bullshit.
I think it would suffer from reality being so batshit insane that it would struggle to surpass it in any comedic way, just like The Onion these days.
Yeah, I watched Veep either during or after the first Trump presidency. The situations that were supposed to feel absurd felt borderline sane in comparison to reality.
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My company has been jizzing themselves that our token usage has gone up.
I’ve never seen so many people rushing to add a middleman into their product dev.
make sure to use as many extraneous tokens as you possibly can
This is 100% marketing for Anthropic. Think your monthly bill for the tokens you used is high? Rookie numbers
Mandatory: CEOe are like the village idiot who won the lottery. Don't listen to them and stop giving them a voice.
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You could hire twelve senior engineers in Europe for that kinda money
oh shit, I thought it's per year initially, I am considered a senior dev in a lot of setups (8yoe), worked remotely for European companies (hence European standards on code quality), hold PhD yet my monthly salary didn't cross 4k yet, you can hire an army of me with this.
Oh yeah, but can an army of you draw me as a Ghibli character? Checkmate, liberals /s
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You could have bought a small house with that kind of money 😅
In London, you might be able to buy a shed with that 😅
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But add another employee or 2, or God forbid increase benefits and they burn you at the stake.
My company is going wild like this too. I mean, it makes sense - more AI use means code is being written faster and thus we’re making more money.
But they go weirdly quiet when devs ask if AI has actually been speeding up the time to get a finished product in front of customers. You know, the only metric you should care about?
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I use an LLM as a glorified search engine at work. Basically to search thousands of pages of documentation and tickets to get context before approving something. 2-3 prompts amounts to a dollar. Imagine doing that several times a day multiplied by thousands of employees (because everyone is mandated to use AI). And that’s a simple task, not even coding yet.
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good business is when bankruptcy
That's 12 fairly decent engineers' salary
Is AI really 4x-ing productivity at his company? Even the optimistic estimates don't even have it as a 2x improvement
It's baffling to me that people who's entire career hinges on them displaying a level of extreme competence, just tell on themselves like this.
It's a company that sells 'AI' services to their customers. Most likely the major part of the 113,000 dollars is paid by those customers. They're basically resellers.
Well every job i have worked at requires me to not use ai. Is this all private companies?
The company I work for (publicly listed) has granted company-wide access to Copilot, but requires users to complete a pretty extensive (2+ hour) training module before you’re able to use it.
Pretty obvious stuff like, don’t upload sensitive data, validate output etc. I just use it as a glorified search engine usually - validating function syntaxes etc., and also cot rewriting email to be less blunt.
Really comes down to whether companies have; no tech departments to stop employees from using AI, small departments that don’t want to deal with the headache, large departments capable of managing the rollout.
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Nah, you've just been lucky
What field you working in? I know some are more security conscious and don't allow AI for that reason (gambling, sports betting, banking)
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