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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei : "Software is going to become cheap, maybe essentially free. The premise that you need to amortize a piece of software you build across millions of users, that may start to be false. But at the same time, there are whole jobs, whole careers that... show more
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This guy is the biggest bullshiter and everything he says is 100% about manipulating Anthropic valuation. So all these things that he "anticipates" or "predicts" are just part of the valuation-increasing narrative.
Just because most people can make a sandwich hasn’t made the sandwich free
Right... Everyone is going to vibe code their own Photoshop. What a load of BS and what and odd character. Watching him talk is disturbing.
Increasingly I wonder if this guy actually understands anything about SaaS at all. Yes, MVPs are basically free to build now. The 98% of non devs *do not* want to maintain software. Their employers don’t want to do it, either. There will continue to be a WTP for that service.
I'm the proof. 49, no coding background, building and shipping products with AI tools. The barrier isn't money anymore. It's knowing what to build and having the discipline to ship.
Godspeed. 🚀
I watched it all and he basically regurgitated what he’s been saying for 2 years now.
Funny: "you know the stuff y'all make, yeah, our product will make it free. Now, what we make, yeah, that's gonna cost money. Okay, so who is on board to buy shares at my IPO?"
He's right, but like most tech CEOs his timelines are wrong.
I’d like to know how we can deal with it. How does the father of four, who spent 20 years becoming a principal SWE, who has kids in college and a mortgage and a wife with chronic illness… how does that guy “deal with” having zero economic value? How do we as a society “deal with” the economic impact of those guys having no economic function? These broligarchs blithely talk about this with hand waves and “I thinks”. With all due respect, that’s not good enough. So far I’ve not seen anyone actually offer solutions. We are not planning. What we are doing is what we always do; we will break things. But this time we are breaking the entire economy.
How is it going to become free when cost to develop has shifted to compute? He’s a fkn idiot
He has been making one and the same claim for the past 24+ months, selling tokens to vibecoder for money, and simultaneously having 50+ open software engineering positions at Antrophic. All the while 99.9% of his customers have built nothing and the rest have less than 10 users.
You are lying Dario. You will get the most revenue from giving the stupid unwashed masses iPhone crowd free copies but exorbitant token charges for the rest of us. How else are you going to justify your trillion dollar IPO
So Claude isn’t a software? lol… 😂
its not free if youre paying for credits to write, secure, monitor, update and everything else required to keep an app alive.
“Cheap or free” while the bank rollers of the chronically loss-leading frontier model providers keep pouring money in. It’s not really cheap/free is it, you build software using a $200/month subscription, that’s actually costing “someone else” $2000/month. When that finally doesn’t work anymore, what will the cost of software dev be then? That statement is a house of cards.
Software will become essentially free. Whats gonna get expensive is the data. Data is gonna be the next base layer for the software with polymorphic backends and frontends. We are already seeing that with things like agentic OS
Software is going to become cheap, maybe essentially free. Except for AI. It is definitely not going to be cheap, or essentially free. In fact, it is going to cost you everything thing you have and everything you are. But other than that - yes, cheap and even free.
this guy needs to just stop fucking talking he’s losing customers because his “software” not written by humans fails BADLY with every release yet humans will lose their jobs because of AI worst. marketing. ever.
if its free why should we pay anthropic 🥴
He's been repeating the same story over and over again. I'd rather believe Jensen who has recently said exactly the opposite
only holds when you can ignore ongoing ops and compliance costs
ofc he’s saying that, he’s based his whole investor pitch and marketing strategy on fear. He can’t back down now
That's the logical continuity even if people still try to denie it will happen
Free as in beer or free as in freedom?
AI will be dime a dozen. It will be like electricity, or gasoline. Once all AIs achieve human level intelligence, all AIs will be able to do all human jobs, just as electricity can run every equipment. The real winners will be countries with the right political system. Everyone will have to own a big enough stock portfolio to be able to live off the normal returns of the stock market. Only authoritarian China has the political system for wealth distribution.
Coding with LLM is like drawing with intermittent dots. Each prompt is a dot which is a projection of your understanding on you Biological Neural Network. You still need to understand what you are drawing and what is drawn in the high dimensional space.
this is a guy who is actively amortizing a piece of software across millions of users btw
Lol the fact we have to pay 20bucks to Claude to simply keep up It was free when we had stackoverflow and random folks on discord helping us
I just want this bubble to explode so that we can see what we really have and how much the inference actually costs. there is no doubt that llms are astonishing and capable of lots of things but we just need it to be normalized and came with the actual costs. (non-subsidized)
Unless you wanna devlop a systems level application, with sophisticated code and technology, it's hard for LLMs to replicate that, LLMs tend to produce an "average" output, due to their training techniques.
Dude oh dude , don't tell me you believe this shit: "free software", you ever heard of fukin open source, I don't see anything open source from anthropic... Also what jobs, let's invent 1 new job that replaces 20 jobs.. but hey you all visionaries when your pockets are full ..
I'm still waiting for this take to come true Is every engineer typing manually 99% less - yes Can any responsible engineer leave any agent unattended on an actually big app and let it maintain it - hell nah
Dario Amodei’s fear-mongering isn’t "vision"—it’s a survival tactic. Healthy giants like Databricks don't rush to IPO because they have cash, resources, and thriving secondary markets. Anthropic is crying wolf because their burn rate is unsustainable and they need a liquidity event before software "free" (as Dario claims). Irony is, if software becomes free and switching costs stay at zero, what’s Claude’s moat? Codex is even better product; Gemini has more ecosystem integration and best pricing. Jobs aren't disappearing; they’re shifting. The only thing disappearing fast is Anthropic's runway. 📉
Not even ready for prime time because AI has no logic or common sense Like an outsourced pile of feces from India They take Eveything literally I don’t know how they’ll ever get ai to code without extreme guidance
![Scott Wu (Scott Wu) on what programming will look like in the future: “All programming really comes down to is how do you tell your computer what to do? For every single piece of software that you use, some team of engineers came together and thought through all these details of, "Okay, here's what I want it to do. Here's how I want it to look. Here's what I want this button to do. Here's how I want to architect it." Every single little decision was made by somebody. And the computer is then executing it according to the wishes of its creators. At this point you don't need to know a programming language. You don't need to know Python or Java or something like that in order to build your own software. You can just say, "Hey, here's what I want. I wanna make a cool website that does this and that." Or in my existing product, "Here' what we have today, and I wanna change this thing or add this new feature," and just have the agent go and do that for you. I think we're gonna continue to go further down that axis. I think we'll start to see that abstraction will continue to climb. I think what we'll see a lot more of in the near future is making a piece of software which you're going to use one time and never again. To create software today the math only really works out if it's gonna be used at least a million times or something. Maybe it's 10,000 times or whatever. My point is if you wanna go build a product today, you need a whole team of engineers. Engineers are expensive. You need that software to be used enough times to create enough value for that to be worth it. But there are so many things out there which are very specific things that only need to be used a few times, or even only once. There’s all of these things that could be done with software. It just obviously doesn't make sense to hire a whole team of people to go make you that piece of software, which you're gonna use one time and never again. We're gonna get to a point where you are just giving your instructions to your agent, and the agent is gonna figure out, okay, I'm gonna write this code that's gonna go do this. I'm gonna put a script that automates this part etc. and that's what's gonna allow [single use software]. What [this is all about] is really just how you control your computer and how you get it to do what you wanna go do. You’ll wake up in the morning and you’ll talk to your agent about it. The agent does the literal writing of the code and you're the one that's deciding what to do.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2071717584974791115/amplify_video_thumb/2071717207961468928/img/b-EQV_TJf3BbItVN.jpg)
