I'll add the nuance that those might be big companies with slack capacity, or at least firms that already are at a point in their effort/performance curve where marginal effort injections in their core business are not worthy enough (a point that, without being big companies, would be actually weird). Even with AI and as processes become more efficient effort is at premium, and depending on your firm situation an man-hour used in your business might be a better use of effort and time that using it on non-core services.

I also remember chinese being discussed as a potential orchestrating language but I don't remember the sources, so 100% anecdotical.

Maybe marginally profitable, but right now they need to give out subsidies for people to use their products (Antigravity, Codex, Claude Code et al) in an actually useful manner that prevents churn and at the scale they need to justify usage growth forecasts, which they need to keep the wheel turning.

Probably if you look at the users who exclusively use the simple chat box interfaces (i.e. ChatGPT, Gemini in UI, Claude in UI) plans it is actually profitable, but I'd also say that's not where most of the usage comes from.

I'd love to actually look at both usage + profitability from each user segment to see if their PxQ growth expectations from non-enterprise usage make any sense.

> Many independent providers price tokens of open-weight models at a fraction of Anthropic's prices.

Are those open-weight models as good as Anthropic? Are they the same parameter class?

God forbid showing the humane side of both tragedies and big stakes missions in an aesthetically pleasing and humorous way.

> So it treats a genuinely huge science fiction premise in a disney type emotional level. The humor feels adolescent and tonally deflates the stakes. Instead of using first contact, isolation, and extinction level danger to create awe or intellectual depth, it turns them into a cute, reassuring buddy experience.

I'd say that's exactly what makes the movie charming for the "masses" and it's OK if you are not into that, but don't make it sound like it is an absolutely terrible movie just because it does not comply to your definition of a good scifi movie.

I would add there are more reasons why this wouldn't work: costs due to OOM more usage, adoption/AI backlash, adversarial environment, players with big head starts (Google).

I find their software to be of subpar quality and resilience anyways.

McDonalds cooks ~great~ (edit: fair enough, decent) burgers when measured objectively, but people still go to more niche burger restaurants because they want something different and made with more care.

That's not to say that an human can't use AI with intent, but then AI becomes another tool and not an autonomous code generating agent.

PS: I know it is interesting and I don't doubt Antrophic, but for me it is so fascinating they get such a pass in science.

The same can be said of your time, but here we're talking about scale benefits due to LLMs (i.e. lots of SaaSs dying due to lots of "full featured f/oss projects").