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by Nerdx86 322 days ago
There are real capacity limits here. Supply and demand are serious forces. When you have a top tier product, you can do a lot but at some point so many people come that it overloads capacity. Last week I had 3 Claude code opus windows happily burning over $100 worth of API credits simultaneously documenting an old code base. This was after a senior engineer had spent 2 weeks learning how to have new code interact with it. And they were timing out and/or hitting excessive cap while my regular teams account just returned "too busy".

Claude 4 is good enough that people will pay whatever they ask as long as it's significantly less than the cost of doing it by hand. The loss leaders will need to fade away to manage the demand, now that there is significant value.