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Claude is making $72k a year for a consistent $300/day spend.

Bear in mind those are revenue figures, they're costing claude hundreds a day.

One imagines Leadership won't be so pleased after the inevitably price hike (which, given the margins software uses, is going to be in the 1-3 thousands a day) and the hype wears off enough for them to realize they're spending a full salary automating a partial FTE.

But, by the looks of things, models will be more efficient by then and a cheaper-to-run model will produce comparable output. At least that's how it's been with OSS models, or with the Openai api model. So maybe the inevitable price hike (or rate limiting) may lead to switching models / providers and the results being just as good.

There is an interesting substack post about this. LLM costs are dropping 10x/year but the amount of tokens used have gone up like crazy https://open.substack.com/pub/ethanding/p/ai-subscriptions-g...

> But, by the looks of things, models will be more efficient by then and a cheaper-to-run model will produce comparable output

So far there's negative evidence of this. Things are getting more expensive for similar outputs.

And this varies widely between models based on how they are told to reason.

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