I don't think it's them exclusively.I'm the admin on the claude account at work and I have their cheap account and never hit my limit, while others are on the expensive plan and run through hundreds of dollars of credits in addition each month. I'm not taking it easy on this thing either. I had it convert several thousand rules in our firewalls to fortimanager global rules, I gave it a personal project with a long promp to build a truenas replacement based on universal blue's ucore, webzfs and config files for nfs, cifs/samba, and s3 (rustfs) all managed through my forgejo setup with forgejo runners building it and forgejo providing the repo that the machine looks at to upgrade the base and the config (it's two seperate pathways so I can push config changes like new nfs shares without having to do a system image update). All that barely moved the needle on my account. I suspect they are all a bunch of shysters opportunistically abusing us.
> I suspect they are all a bunch of shysters opportunistically abusing us.
At this point we conclusively know that.
What frustrates me is the constant unshakeable belief here that subscriptions must be running at a loss, based on zero evidence.
Anthropic have said they have 85% margin, which presumably means their normal API pricing. 85% margin is insane. No business deserves that. We can easily assume the subscription is running at a more sane margin like 5-15%.
