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0 pointsForgeties7911mo ago0 comments

Have we seen any examples of any of these companies turning a profit yet even at $200+/mo? My understanding is that most, if not all, are still deeply in the red. Please feel free to correct me (not sarcastic - being genuine).

If that is the case at some point the music is going to stop and they will either perish or they will have to crank up their subscription costs.

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jarredkenny11mo ago· 4 in thread

I am absolutely benefitting from them subsidizing my usage to give me Claude Code at $200/month. However, even if they 10x the price its still going to be worth it for me personally.

Forgeties79OP11mo ago

I totally get that but that’s not really what I asked/am driving at. Though I certainly question how many people are willing to spend $2k/mo on this. I think it’s pretty hard for most folks to justify basically a mortgage for an AI tool.

jarredkenny11mo ago

My napkin math is that I can now accomplish 10x more in a day than I could even one year ago, which means I don't need to hire nearly as many engineers, and I still come out ahead.

I use claude code exclusively for the initial version of all new features, then I review and iterate. With the Max plan I can have many of these loops going concurrently in git worktrees. I even built a little script to make the workflow better: http://github.com/jarredkenny/cf

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tomjakubowski11mo ago

I'm curious, how are you accounting this? Does the productivity improvement from Claude's product let you get your work done faster, which buys you more free time? Does it earn you additional income, presumably to the tune of somewhere north of $2k/month?

WJW11mo ago

You would honestly pay 2k a month to an AI tool? Do you not have other costs like a mortgage or rent?

nl11mo ago· 1 in thread

It's possible Anthropic is cash-flow positive now.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet supposedly cost "a few tens of millions of dollars"[1], and they recently hit $4B ARR[2].

Those numbers seem to give a fair bit of room for salaries, and it would be surprising if there wasn't a sustainable business in there.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/anthropics-latest-flagship...

[2] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-revenue-hi...

joks11mo ago

Cost to train and cost to operate are two very different things

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