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founder/cto @ (yc w22)

[brant @brantchoate]

@blakeir nah. imo it’s just ppl trying to sound cool or they don’t have real jobs

[brant @brantchoate]

@nikitabier @Dea_rMen goat

[brant @brantchoate]

@seattletimes go away pls

[brant @brantchoate]

@thogge can confirm from experience

[brant @brantchoate]

@snowmaker yep. an ai is an incredible boon to pulling signal through the noise

[brant @brantchoate]

@thogge @remilabs @Dougbarnett always a pleasure to have you there

[brant @brantchoate]

@bradflora 🙏 some of us just need some years under our belts first

[brant @brantchoate]

@dessaigne Same

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

There seem to be two main groups

1️⃣ Those who post all day long about using coding agents but don’t seem to ship anything

2️⃣ A small group whose output has dramatically increased and are constantly shipping valuable things

The irony is that the ratio of these probably remains unchanged from before AI even existed. It also seems 2️⃣ can outship 1️⃣ even more so the “ship-rich will get richer” so to speak.

[brant @brantchoate]

@jackrcutler Can’t trust em!

[brant @brantchoate]

Anthropic’s biggest problem is that they are not customer centric. But they are also claiming to not be in it for the money. It’s some vague set of ideals that none of us understand.

Makes being a customer incredibly frustrating. Also makes wanting to root for them hard.

“AI safety” is not a mission. Feels like a vague excuse to do whatever they want. Not explain themselves. And then blame it all on being “on the side of ai safety” or not.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[tobi lutke @tobi]

You have absolutely disgraced yourself publishing this, globe.

We all clearly don’t hate the media enough.

[brant @brantchoate]

@thogge @altcap fix everyone’s ever shrinking attention spans

[SemiAnalysis @SemiAnalysis_]

Recently, we purchased one of each Anthropic/OpenAI subscription plan and randomly ran long horizon coding tasks until we exhausted the weekly limit. It's widely believed that a $200/month plan maxes out at ~$2000/month worth of tokens (assuming API pricing). However, we found that the subscriptions are actually far more generous. (2/4)

[brant @brantchoate]

@Austen most love / hate relationship I’ve ever had

[brant @brantchoate]

@chamath and will not transparently answer any question you have as a customer. support + gtm very clearly have sanitized scripts to obfuscate and avoid sharing potentially damning details

[brant @brantchoate]

Anthropic sucks to work with. Great product team. 0/10 support and gtm

[Marty Kausas @marty_kausas]

Our Anthropic bill is about to jump from $400K → $1.4M/yr.

Not because usage exploded, but because we're about to cross 150 seats.

Past 150 seats you're forced into Enterprise tier. Seats stop including any usage, every token bills at standard API rates. At our current run rate that's 3.5x overnight.

Unfiltered thoughts on AI spend:

1. We should spend tokens to grow as aggressively as possible. But most people (me included) aren't conscious of what they're spending.

2. Visibility comes first. People see their personal number and they're shocked. I accidentally spent $4,000 in 3 days in Claude Code.

3. For engineering the spend is clearly worth it. Pay for the best model, it saves more than it costs.

4. For a lot of other roles it's questionable. Apps nobody uses, skills someone already built. No ROI.

5. Spend limits are coming. We already require approval for more tokens on our support team.

The era of token-maxxing is coming to an end.

[brant @brantchoate]

fyi Claude enterprise = pay 10x more for the right to fill out a form when you have a problem (and wait for days to get a response)

[brant @brantchoate]

@malakhovdm have witnessed this at least 50x through the years. I think I’m 0/50 in convincing them it’s a bad idea

[brant @brantchoate]

red flags for pre-pmf venture cos:

- obsession with self-serve
- freemium / ridiculously low price points
- posting articles about architecture rebuilds
- follow too many indie-hacker ppl on X