A research associate costs $60,000 a year. Grok Bot runs 50 bots for $300 a month.
Almost everyone stops at layer one of six.
Full framework: every charter and schedule, ready to copy. Plus the 5 things it doesn't solve. https://t.co/vxZuP8frYX
Everyone is comparing the $30 trillion to US GDP. Here is the comparison nobody is making.
Anthropic's own target for 2030 is close to $200 billion in annual sales. Against the $30 trillion it is pitching, that is 0.7%. The current run-rate, $65 billion at the end of July, is 0.2%.
The company is not forecasting that it wins this market. It is describing a room big enough that a rounding error inside it still looks enormous.
Both numbers come from Anthropic. Only one of them made the headline.
@simonw "pushed directly to github instead" is the part that'd make me nervous ngl, cool that it worked but that's a wild amount of trust for a CI workflow it wrote itself.