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hansmayer — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:09:33 +0000

> What difference does it make to me

It's the scale that matters as first, and secondly, most people don't shred their books after reading them once or twice. This is just beyond words.

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hansmayer — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:55:32 +0000

> Excluding

But you don´t get to to that. Would be like "Excluding my business costs, my company profits are the same as my revenue".

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hansmayer — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:39:57 +0000

Folks, not EVERYTHING needs to be LLMs!

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hansmayer — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:43:24 +0000

> I guarantee

How do you guarantee it, exactly? AI told you in an authoritative tone?

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:42:22 +0000

So no one got it right? Myself, tech outlets, non-tech outlets, everyone on twitter, etc?

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:37:55 +0000

Oh, basic counting is now arithmetic? But I was told they were superintelligent and were going to cause an apocalypse because they can do pretty much everything ? Somehow because they can excrement a lot of text, we were told they can do everything else too?

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:36:13 +0000

> Anthropic has generated far more than 5B in revenue

A sworn affidavit by the Anthropic CFO from Dec. 2025 is what you need to look up mate.

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:34:09 +0000

> weird prior assumption to make

No, at this level of capital involved, and so much opacity around the company financials, it's a perfectly reasonable assumption.

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:28:09 +0000

> You can also tell the LLM exactly what

You can - but it's not advisable, not in the least.

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:57:28 +0000

Oh really? How about the king of non-tech-outlets and digestible, shallow bites for the not-reading-books-middle-class, the Business Insider?

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai...

You know their business is literally correct interpretation of the C-Suite statements.

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:52:01 +0000

> 10x revenue growth per year

To the stunning tune of 5B in the lifetime .

> You think enterprises are adopting CC because they think "oh this will replace my SWEs I can fire them"?

Yeah, that's actually Darios main talking point

> They buy CC because it's useful and the writing is so clearly on the wall in so many data points that to suggest otherwise is a bit silly at this point

Right, really sound arguments - writing is "clearly on the wall" and there are "so many data points". I'd be keen to use those immediately, but I am kind of missing the key of the "many data points" - namely, what did you build with it and how much ARR is it generating?

> You, as a leader of a company, don't have to make predictions

I have to make predictions, but not confabulations, lies and idiocies.

> Amodei and everyone else need to plan compute

FOR WHAT? Again, what was built with their shitty product in various companies and how much ARR did it generate? Uber seems to get no value out of it.

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:44:43 +0000

> 1T company plans to IPO and their leader has been loudly committing an insane amount of fraud?

Ever heard of Enron, Theranos, SBX ? They were all hiding in plain sight - who could've thought they were frauds?

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:41:22 +0000

Read the other comment in the thread. Your buddy literally confirmed exactly what I wrote.

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:31:52 +0000

Why puzzled ? I literally said "According to Ed Zitron", implying that's where I stumbled upon the article. I've no time to read corporate media, at least not regularly.

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:28:48 +0000

I don't have to try at all - I think anyone who spent as much as an internship, let alone years at a modern tech corp would have no trouble distilling the absolutely clear message - we are spending too much for too little value. And actually wtf am I explaining myself? Every major tech outlet interpreted it like that too. It's not that hard Simon.

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:21:57 +0000

Haven't you heard - these days they just throw slop generated by LLM agents over to other LLM agents which cosplay as internal QA. They know it works because they write really strict .MD files where they instruct agents in English language to 'never do this' and 'always do that'.

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:17:36 +0000

> Their revenue has quadrupled in just a few months

Maybe, maybe not. We haven't seen that S-1 yet. All we have is the 5B in lifetime so far. PLUS - revenue quadrupled or not, it only matters if their costs did not expand at the same rate or more. Revenue is not profit.

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:01:09 +0000

In the meanwhile, Google AI search still says the next year after 2026 will be 2028.

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hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:59:36 +0000

Mate, for 5 years I've been hearing that crap. I am not predicting anything / on the contrary the AI boosting bunch is. When are your predictions coming true?

New comment by hansmayer in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

hansmayer — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:58:21 +0000

> Timescales are hard for anyone to predict

Indeed. That's why serious people are very careful, even if they are not running a company supposedly worth 1T USD

> He is forced to do these predictions to know how much compute to buy in advance

Ah well, that explains it. For my companies next quarter, I'll just pull some random numbers out of my ass so we can make plans with material impact to company business based on that.