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Re:Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code by hirako2000 on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @11:41AM (#47780673)
In the case of Gmail that was fake scarcity.

In the case of Anthropic is fake availability.

Sam Altman explained the idea is to scale the thing up, and see what happens.

He hadn't claimed to offer a solution to the supply problem that would unfold.

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Re:Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code by iainmerrick on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @01:48PM (#47782622)
Are you mixing up Anthropic and OpenAI here?
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Re:Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code by hirako2000 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:15PM (#47795602)
I didn't. Anthropic and others followed the concept of scaling up models and worry about efficiency and availability later. Sam likely didn't invent the idea but he talked about it.
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Re:Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code by bruckie on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @02:08PM (#47782931)
Are you sure it was fake scarcity for Gmail? IIRC they did it because they were worried about systems falling over if it grew too fast, and discovered the marketing benefits as a side effect.
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