Where's Your Ed At

A scathing critique of Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei, arguing that the company's 'safe AI' positioning is a calculated PR and fundraising strategy rather than genuine principle. The piece documents a pattern of vague, unfalsifiable predictions about AI capabilities timed to coincide with funding rounds, examines Anthropic's financial reality (losing $5.2B generating $4.5B in revenue), challenges the company's claimed 38% gross margins by arguing training costs are ongoing opex rather than one-time capex, and contends that Claude Code's economics are unsustainable. The author concludes Anthropic is no more ethical than OpenAI and that Amodei is a more media-savvy but equally dishonest operator than Sam Altman.

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