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Re:Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceed... by lbreakjai on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:12PM (#50345469)
> The AI usage still needs a knowledge worker to direct it in ways that it can't direct itself

So we're back to square one, and your productivity increase has a ceiling that's much lower than 5x, let alone 20x. There's a limit on how many things one can keep track of, how many code changes one can reason about.

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Re:Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceed... by crazygringo on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:13PM (#50346706)
I'm not really following. My point here is that this is why the ceiling is around 20x, as opposed to being e.g. 200x or 2,000x.

That doesn't mean it's "much lower than 5x."

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