fable is but it depends on what you use it for
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well, they care about anything that's related to America's technological leadership. This thing is going to blow up so hard once the market finally realizes the glut of data center coming online with no customers.
I mean I don't use it or ChatGPT, but it's clearly the leader based on what others what done with it. It's also kind of implied that if several Chinese labs do some degree of distillation of Claude, then they think Opus is the best.
Normally here for learning, but I use claude on a regular basis for a project. It is really good. I've built something that would have taken 20 engineers six months or more prior to the "AI" era. Scoping, design, algorithms, tests, documentation, and even compliance. I've been careful and had external fleshy reviewers just to be careful. Claude's been very, very good.
PS. I pay for it.
It's legit really good, but not worth the money unless your company is paying the subscription (like mine lol). It can still make the occasional dumb mistake, but it reliably gets you ~80% of the way there even on complex tasks. Also benefits hugely from MCP connectors to internal documentation, messaging, codebase, etc, which lets the agents go wild.
And speaking of not worth it:
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Its good if your baseline for comparison is no AI or if you're given unlimited tokens for free from your company, but if you pay for it your self or you run the company, and you do coding for a living rather than dabble (i.e. exceed subscription rate limits) , Claude is garbage compared to Chinese AI, you literally could only do a tiny fraction of what you can do with GLM or Kimi for the same budget.
IMO people get attached to Claude because Anthropic put a lot more effort into giving it "personality" than Chinese models, but the world would not feel a single iota of difference if Claude disapeared tomorrow
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All AI can do that, but you can do far more with GLM or Kimi on the same budget than Claude, and thats not to mention the large number of people who dont know the difference between Sonnet and Opus.
I do enterprise level coding on GLM + Kimi these days and its infinitely better than waiting for Claude to reset rate limits.
At end of the day hard reality of money doesnt really care about your preferences, companies who use Claude will die to companies who use Chinese models, its a caculus even major US corporations now understand.
Put $150 into GLM max tier and use it inplace of Claude for one month and you'll understand
We have a soft limit of $50k per developer per month, though it's not really enforced—I know of a couple folks who are over $70k. But that's just a metric derived from token count (somewhere in the billions), and I'm sure the actual spend is much lower due to corporate contracts.
Yeah I dont know what to tell you but no company can survive actually paying $600k a year per head ontop of salary, the only way this works is if people dont actually use it or Anthropic is eating the cost.
That's why I said it's just a metric derived from token count. $600k might be the nominal value on the open market, but not what we are paying.
Also most developers are nowhere close to using it up lol. I myself only use about 10%, despite automating most of my daily workflow.