[bikeshaving]

Must be nice to have unquota’ed tokens to use with frontier AI (is this the case for Anthropic employees?). One thing I think is fascinating as we enter the Intellicene is the disproportionate access to AI. The ability to petition them to do what you want is currently based on monthly subscriptions, but will it change in the future? Who knows?

[Aurornis]

> (is this the case for Anthropic employees?)

It would be funny if the company paying software engineers $500K or more along with gold-plated stock options was limiting how much they could use the software their company was developing.

[blhack]

Especially when the software they're developing is supposed to speed up the speed at which the software they are developing is developed.

[michaelmcmillan]

It is a long-standing policy at Netflix for employees to pay for their own subscriptions. It ensures that employees "live the member experience".

[joshribakoff]

Why is that funny? What company gives you unlimited resources? That doesn’t scale. Google employees can’t just demand a $10,000 workstation. It’s reasonable to assume they have some guardrails, for both financial and stability reasons. Who knows… if it’s unlimited now, will it stay that way forever? Probably unlimited in the same sense as unlimited pto.

[codesnik]

well, not only their software but also hardware resources they're renting, but I agree they don't.

[perfmode]

Tokens aren’t free.

[dcre]

Pretty sure I have seen them imply in one of the panel discussions on their YouTube channel (can't remember which) that they get unlimited use of the best models. I remember them talking about records for the most spent in a day or something.

[avereveard]

Owning the means of cognition is going to be more and more importan as it allows one to scale more than linearly.

Outsiders will be tied to limited or pay per use because owning the means of cognition will be a massive extractive economy

[selcuka]

> is this the case for Anthropic employees?

Not sure about all Anhropic employees, but that must definitely be the case for Boris Cherny.

[returnInfinity]

Its not unlimited, the compute allocation was one of the reason for the coup at OpenAI

[pbmonster]

Pretty sure that was scientists competing for 6 month training runs of new 100B+ parameter models, not coders burning through a couple of million tokens.

[crthpl]

It is the case that Anthropic employees have no usage limits. Some people do experiments where they spawn up hundreds of Claude instances just to see if any of them succeed.

[OccamsMirror]

Are they using these tests as a form of RLHF?