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Analyst Casts Doubt On Accidental $500 Million Claude Spend

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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits#1556inAI

This is equivalent to the salaries of like 20,000 engineers. No one at a big company has the authority to spend that much money by accident.

Timothy B. Lee@binarybits

I don't believe any company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude in a month. The number is an order of magnitude too large to be plausible.

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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits

Company accidentally spent $5M on tokens in a month -> Wow the CTO must have gotten an earful

Company accidentally spent $50M -> Holy cow there must have been an incredible series of management screwups

Company accidentally spent $500M -> lol ok bro

Timothy B. Lee@binarybits

I don't believe any company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude in a month. The number is an order of magnitude too large to be plausible.

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