That's fine. It is probably worth noting human written code that has been reviewed by 1000s of humans are having valid critical bugs found in them by AI. No one is forcing you to use it but humans aren't magically perfect just because you don't like AI.

It's not as bad as you think. Anthropic is running at a loss at max usage. Openai isn't. And even Anthropic profits if you use 20% of your quota or less each month. They would only have to move the price up if it became a real issue. Or cut usage cap down (that's mostly how openai does it, $20 gets you less total tokens, there's nuance to whether this is automatically worse though). But not as dramatically as you might think. It would lock out many hobbyists, but not companies that have come to rely on it.

They're good for coding simple things for yourself if you don't want to learn to code or spend hours making something you will use once. Kinda like fast food.

You could argue I can learn to cook better and spend the time to do so. But I don't always want to and fast food is good enough. Same with llm. I can ask it to make me a Web app that does X and have it in seconds. All the usual worries about bugs and security don't apply as strongly to an app I make for just me that does just one thing.

Like say I'm at a takeaway shop with multiple people and the only menu is the board behind the counter. I take a couple photos, send them to the llm and say make me a menu app that I can add and remove items and it tracks the price. I will have it in under a minute and we can stop trying to read the board and block the counter and have the cashier patiently staring at us while we browse it in our own time and know exactly what the total will be.

Now you can quibble over whether that's "genuinely useful" or not. But it is to me. And I make tons of these simple one use apps for all kinds of things. And even if I was the best coder on earth, it still wouldn't be practical to hand make the same thing on the fly. Also hyper specific Firefox add-ons that don't exist because they're too specific to me and I didn't want to learn to make Firefox add-ons just to have them.

Even on the larger end, I wanted a lucid dream journal app and at the time the ones on the play store largely pay walled the best features and even pay walled exporting your journal. I didn't like that. So I had llm make me a basic one with the features I wanted, everything stored as txt files with export/import and ability to back up to drop box by oauth into a dedicated folder that can't touch the rest of my Dropbox. Even if llm disappeared and the app broke and I couldn't fix it I still have my entire journal as plain text.

So yeah. I find it useful. Because the alternative isn't me learning to code. It's these things not existing.

Not posting this to defend them but because the nuance matters to understanding what is happening better.

The $80.7 billion loss looks huge, but most of it isn't straight cash, about $72 billion is a paper charge. Anthropic issued bonds that can turn into shares. This means they get more valuable as the company does, and Anthropic has to count that rise as a loss. So it's actually a case of the loss being "higher" the more the company is valued.

The actual reported operating loss in all 2025 was around $8.1 billion on $4.6 billion of revenue, with Anthropic saying it's now profitable on an adjusted basis, though the adjustment is their own way of counting and what will be under scrutiny.

I'm not saying it is the best ever made but I bought this 5 years ago and still use it for TV, movies and gaming in the bedroom and am very happy with it. No smart features.

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If you're still interested try other models like Deepseek, Kimi or glm, they were all willing to engage with it when I just tested asking about hacking LG 65" QNED70BSA AI Mini-LED Smart TV.

From what they said LG is patching aggressively though. The most useful resource I got from it is this site: cani.rootmy.tv

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It will. But if you frame it as wage, it's giving everyone a 1.5c/h pay rise to watch them. Many companies would take that. And that's not considering the local models that are essentially free. Again I don't think most are doing it.

And you're right the paperwork and actually getting something built and installed and working across a company would be a massive hurdle. I'm just saying price isn't really. Especially if they're a company already paying for AI in some way.

I believe the vast majority aren't, and I know money is money, but it's not that expensive. Not only are there vision models small enough to run locally entirely free now on hardware more modest than you would think, even using an api key from open router and sending it a screenshot every 15 seconds to summarise it into a log costs in the realm of 1.5c/hour.

Now yes that is per person, but even so, 10 employees 15c/h, 100 for $1.50/h. And remember this is an unreasonably often every 15 seconds. Most would be happy per minute or even less. Under 40c/h to watch 100 people. It's money yes, but it really isn't that expensive.

Edit: voice is also cheaper than you would think to have a model stt and summarise it, also single digit cents per hour of audio.

I have it create things for me that I would otherwise never have. I wanted an app for dream tracking. They were either pay walled, didn't have the features I wanted, or both. Ai created what I wanted in a weekend. That's just one example. I've created many single use apps as well.

If I'm at a takeaway store I take a photo of the board and it makes me an interactive menu that totals the price of what everyone wants and let's us browse without trying to see the board and get in people's way.

I don't expect anyone else to use these. I don't expect anyone else to want to use them. Though they're welcome to. But if I can have a thing create exactly what I want and use it why not?

"but what if it has a bug and you lose a year of journals". Well it created me manual timestamped backups as well as automatic timestamped backups to oauth Dropbox in a dedicated folder without the app having access to the rest of my Dropbox. It could crash everything and I would have every single thing safe in 2 places up to the most recent entry. And they're just text files. I could take them anywhere if AI disappeared and the app broke tomorrow. I could just continue writing in notepad in the worst case until I found something else. But the app looks nicer and does interesting things.

The alternative to this isn't me learning to code and spending months creating them. The alternative is them never existing.

I had one, as with everything that is a touch screen, not being able to use it accurately without staring at it makes the reality of using it a lot worse than the idea. Not saying it isn't a decent backup but I would never want it as my main remote.

Nah she was cleaning everything like crazy and the mother did not believe in germ theory.

It's a valid worry but I think there will always be companies wanting to make cheaper models. You might have less choice of brand, but probably not no choice.