r/technology • u/CarciaNerissa • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026

https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-recorded-net-loss-over-80-billion-first-half-this-year-wsj-reports-2026-10-20/
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u/bigevilbrain 1d ago

I’m encouraged to use all my tokens. Company is paying for tokens and if you don’t use them they expire.

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u/Similar-Low-3114 1d ago

I have loops running what does this ticket do and what does this pr do on my teams repos and have it give me a morning report. Stuff I would do anyway throughout the week but the company asked for max token usage so I’m doing my part with the nonsense

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u/bigevilbrain 1d ago

I cannot even get close to max usage, even doing the stupidest stuff. I have dashboards, I never personally interact with Jira or Gitlab. Code reviews, implementations, dashboards for everything. I’m at like 25%.

Coding output has never been the issue anyway. Anyway, it’s all so ridiculous.

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u/Zenigen 22h ago

You guys have limits?

My company has a dashboard showing everyone's usage costs, and #1 and 2 are both clearing $100k a month in tokens

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u/Mouthshitter 21h ago

Dude that sounds insane, just hire a person... The company is just burning money. this is happening in so many corporations and antropic and openai are still losing billions too, mind boggling

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u/JerryCooke 18h ago

Seriously, I’ll never understand why companies have lost the concept of investing in people. You could get some truly excellent talent for that kind of money 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/silverdice22 12h ago

Its cuz the slaveowner class absolutely hate (could end the sentence there tbh) giving anything, and i mean anything at all, to the "poors."

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u/ExaminationWide5415 6h ago

Redditor who has never been part of management concocts fantasy of evil twirling mustache plans.

Please touch grass

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u/Flaneurer 7h ago

One upside to this whole shitshow is they may actually get rid of entire HR departments ( because no humans)...so there's that.

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u/GiganticCrow 19h ago

Is it that they aren't actually paying anthropic that much? 

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u/Pyritedust 22h ago

Build a copy of pt with it as a side gig

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u/destroyerOfTards 23h ago

Start building dumb shit or make it do useless tasks that you weren't going to do any way. Everyone should maxx out their accounts for frivolous stuff.

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u/flybypost 16h ago

Coding output has never been the issue anyway.

Feels like there should be an AI coding version similar to the old adage: "Typing speed isn't equal to programming speed (or quality)."

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u/GiganticCrow 19h ago

I was terrified for my job when i got notified id spent $1000 in a week. Turns out i have $10000 a month to spend.

That's more than all my costs as an employee. 

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u/Iamgentle1122 19h ago

Do you do B2B or internal work? No way any of my clients would want to like double my monthly cost. We only get Claude Max

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u/DrDerpberg 1d ago

What in the parking meter-ass business model is this?

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u/bigevilbrain 22h ago

So… open models are probably good enough, or will be soon. Running LLMs locally and not sending all your data off to the cloud… duh.

Big enough companies will run their own AIs. You can run your own AI. You can own the parking meters yourself.

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u/geomag42 17h ago

It’s very silly because the AI companies put a bet on the fact most people won’t use all their tokens