[sfn42]

There's nothing (except their capacity and your token budget I guess) stopping anyone from having a million simultaneous conversations with Claude right now.

Maybe a million is a stretch but thousands is completely doable right now. That's thousands of Claudes. Knock yourself out.

[TheOtherHobbes]

But that's the point. No human has the capacity to handle a million simultaneous conversations, any million-sized workflow would have to be AI-managed itself, and it's not even clear what the goals would be.

If it ever becomes possible to say "build me a unicorn" you're going to get millions of people trying to do the same thing, and you no longer have the same economy.

Because the features that generate unicorns stop being unusual.

Startup slop instead of art slop.

Which is the real problem with AI. Work gets cheap, original value stays expensive no matter how much compute you throw at it.

Because if it gets cheap too, it gets commoditised and stops being valuable.

And globally that applies to everything.

AI will either have to be tightly rationed, or it will murder the competitive economy.

[sfn42]

That's my point. Person above is like "if I had a million Claudes I'd be Rick Sanchez", I'm saying they can do that right now so go ahead.