50% of personal claude and codex tokens have been used to build a tax / wealth management / net worth application and the other 50% have been used to try and create a home automation application. I'm only off by +/- 5%. Pretty sure.
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If an Anthropic employee got $500k/year in equity over 4 years in 2024, they are now worth $125M.
At $1M/year equity for 4 years, they are worth about $250M.
The scale and speed of wealth creation are incomprehensible.
$500k/year equity is not a lot for an early-stage startup. I don't think the Bay Area has seen this type of wealth creation in history.
Dot com boom probably feels like a speck of dust.
Three Predictions:
1. Some form of AI, probably neurosymbolic in nature, will come that is far more economical and data- and energy-efficient than LLMs, and it will make an absolute fortune.
2. LLMs, on the other hand, will never be all that profitable (aside from the chip companies selling shovels in the gold rush).
3. Today’s gigantic bets are premature, and most won’t pay off.
This is a baffling tweet, because it says twice that Platner has “a history of bad decision-making,” and then confirms that that bad decision-making causes all sorts of other problems, and then concludes that this would not matter for . . . a member of the U.S. Senate.