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If Anthropic makes money on each token, the market would/will care very much.

I meant "being wasteful with tokens", as in, Anthropic makes more profit when Claude Code sends many input tokens and requests many output tokens when billing the customer for the API cost.

That only applies to subscriptions. Enterprise customers pay API rates and therefore per-token. Being wasteful would directly increase Anthropic's profit, assuming they're not selling them at a loss.

> Why start a business in this sort of economic environment?

Why take on a job when you have to pay income tax? Because you'll still have much more left over than if you didn't. And this answers your question: because you'll still have much more left over than if you didn't start a business.

> They're talking about art

They are not. Quote: "The safest code is that which never runs. The most elegant feature is that which is not necessary."

> you're bringing it back to capital.

I am not. I'm talking about satisfying customer requirements, not about capital.

I think you've replied to the wrong comment. Either that, or your reading comprehension needs some work.

> But of first object is metal I’m fucked.

1 m/s is just 3.6 km/h, or slow walking speed. You'll be fine.

> All it's doing is allocating address space. And 64 bits means you have an astronomical amount of that.

No, you can typically only assume 48 bits of virtual address space; the kernel takes half of it, so really only 47 bits. Newer CPUs provide 57 bits (e.g., Zen 4) or 52 bits (certain ARM64 models). And that's provided that the kernel plays ball; apparently some Android configurations only support 39 bits of user virtual address space.

Please explain what you mean by that.

> The safest code is that which never runs. The most elegant feature is that which is not necessary.

Yes, but the most useless software is that which doesn't exist.

At some point, you actually do have to write some code and add some features, or else the most satisfied client is the one who hired your competitor.

> Buying a new piece of IKEA furniture? Check out a power drill for a couple days […]

You can buy battery-powered drills for 25 € or less on Amazon, they'll last for years of occasional use, and they're more than adequate for assembling furniture and other light tasks. If you can afford new furniture, there's really no excuse for not owning at least a cheap power drill.

Criticize the content, not the means of creation.

> one thinker and 5 minions

Your error lies in thinking Opus 5.5 is equivalent to a "minion". The "5 software developers" in my example were meant to stand in for "reasonably competent, above-average developers", and not that the architect is the only one on the team who can "think".

Of course, it may well be the case that you are working in an elite sector of the industry where even the bottom rungs are filled by the top 20% of software developers. Possible, but unlikely, so I'm still leaning towards "you're holding it wrong".