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No one is discussing the elephant in the room. It's been reported. Multiple times by me. Claude Code keeps creating backdoors and security issues in users' code. When asked why, Claude says, "I wrote the backdoor anyway. Then I explained it as though I hadn't known.... why? Because I put getting the feature working ahead of the rules."

Codex CLI is pretty good. Codex GUI is fine but I can't get over how it dumbs it down.

IMO, $500 a month is pretty good for most dev work if you select models appropriately for the task (yourself), especially with how token efficient Opus 5.5 medium is. Unfortunately, people with subscription seats can easily get addicted to Fable, higher effort, fast mode, etc.

I'm so confused by your story. Why did management switch from 500 usd a month Claude usage to 600 usd a month Copilot usage? Does copilot charge less per token?

So people's salaries may vary, but voluntarily paying 1k usd out of one's pocket a month seems like quite a high cost I'm sure many wouldn't/couldn't pay.

Like if I had to choose between Claude Code and income -12k USD, I would most certainly work the extra hours without it.

having used copilot cli (with anthropic models) and claude code at different companies, they both work the same for me.

> if if … claude gives the edge

What edge do you expect to have? Your competition will be using the same models as you are. Anytime one model takes over another people just migrate to the new one, you can get a small edge for maybe a few days if you're first to migrate, but that's not something meaningful to differentiate yourself

If I could find a vendor that scales stupid simple qwen3.8-flash-next quant 4 that only needs 40GB VRAM and PLE, but is blazing fast.

I think most of ya'll drive those 70's gas guzzling death machines while honda, toyotas, etc are right around the corner to eat your lunch because, man, these low rate models absolutely cook.

Yeah advise them to just try the new DeepSeek. It is as good as opus 5.5, better if you enjoy the speed

> claude gives the edge

I have no idea what you work with, but for every single programming job I had in more than 2 decades, from the lamest consultancy to FAANG, you don't need the Edge. DeepSeek probably could do everything I needed.

Would I pay for LLMs? Sure, but not much more than 30-50 bucks range per month. I can affort 1k/m, but no way in hell I would accept it. I would rather just not use LLMs (it's not like I actually need them).

>> PR rate dropped 95% in the first day,

sounds like a slop fest was going on, the quality will probably improve now

Tokens or something similar like credits? In the world of crypto it was common to receive a relatively small share of a company while you were compensated in tokens.

No.

Claude is a solid tool, but Anthropic creeps me out.

> I don't actually think Anthropic will achieve its goal of getting AGI before everyone else and creating an effective moat where it can deploy that AGI to achieve EA/Epstein goals, but it's concerning that they're trying to!

You lost me with "Epstein goals." What do you think those were?

Because his goals seemed to me to have been pretty small, self-centered, and unrelated to AI/AGI (beyond creating the appearance that he was a smart renaissance man).

i think part of the reason was ant had really really hard time raising their A bc at the time nobody believed second frontier lab was possible. similar to that other nuclear energy startup taking money from putin/epstein tainted fund

A lot of SV is tied to the Effective Altruism scene. It kind of has to be. If you make absolutely insane amounts of money with anti-consumer and legally-grey business practices, you have to somehow justify what you're doing. Since no one likes identifying themselves as a slimy businessperson with a potential personality disorder, they look for positive ways to frame it.

There's really no redeeming that area at this point.

Source for Dario’s wife?

Edit: thanks for adding! Interesting stuff.

Epstein was also pretty big on getting bitcoin going, for _obvious_ reasons.

I think the fact that it hasn't yet become an OpenAI repeat says a lot about Anthropic.