It will have to quintuple or more to make business sense for Anthropic. Sure, still cheaper than a full time developer, but don't expect it to stay at $200 for a long time. And then, when you explain to your boss how amazing it is, and can do all this work so easily and quickly, it's when your boss start asking the real question: what am I paying you for?

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benjiro 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

A programmer, if we use US standards is probably $8000 per month. If you can get 30% more value out of that programmer (trust me, its WAY more then 30%), you gained $2400 of value. If you pay $200, $500, $1000 for that, its still a net positive. Ignoring the salary range of a actual senior...

LLMs do not result in bosses firing people, it results in more projects / faster completed projects, what in turn means more $$$ for a company.

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bonesss 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

More fundamentally: assume a 10 to 30% bump in actual productivity, find a niche (editing software, CRUD frameworks, SharePoint 2.0, stock trading, betting, whatever), and assume you had Anthropics billions or openAIs billions or Microsoft’s billions or Googles billions.

Why on earth would you be hunting $20 a month subscriptions from random assed people? Peanuts.

Lockheed-Martin could be, but isn’t, opening lemonade stands outside their offices… they don’t because of how buying a Ferrari works.

	▲	theshrike79 a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Why on earth would you be hunting $20 a month subscriptions from random assed people? Peanuts. For the same reason Microsoft never has and never will chase people for pirating home Windows or Office licenses When they hit the workforce, or even better, start a company guess which OS and office suite they'll use? Hint: It's not Linux and Openoffice. Same with Claude's $20 package. It lets devs use it at home and then compare it to the Copilot shit their company is pushing on them. Maybe they either grumble enough to get a Claude license or they're in a position to make the call. Cheap advertising pretty much. Worked for me too :) I've paid my own Claude license for over a year at home, grumbled at work and we got a Claude pilot going now - and everyone who's tried it so far isn't going back to Copilot + Sonnet 4.5/GPT5.
	▲	whattheheckheck 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They data farming your intelligence

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senordevnyc 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

All the evidence suggests that inference is quite profitable actually.

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HDThoreaun 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Im not sure about this. What they really need is to get rid of the free tier and widespread adoption. Inference on the $200 plan seems to be profitable right now so they just need more users to amortize training costs.