It's cause he's a bot account doing marketing for Anthropic

That phrase alone should land you in prison.

With a four person team spending over a million annually (potentially) on AI tokens is morbidly stupid.

I would love another season or two of Silicon Valley to roast the latest techbro bullshit.

oh shit, I thought it's per year initially, I am considered a senior dev in a lot of setups (8yoe), worked remotely for European companies (hence European standards on code quality), hold PhD yet my monthly salary didn't cross 4k yet, you can hire an army of me with this.

From their website it looks like they're "reselling" so, that's my best guess as to why their bill would be so high

Their company is providing AI tooling, and the clients are paying for it from what I can see. He's "proud of the invoice" because his company is earning a margin on effectively reselling it. The more they paid Anthropic the more their profit was.

This is the kind of snake eating its tail chaos I'm here for.

That's an... interesting correlation they're making, more code = more money. I know it's not you personally making that comparison, but man is it strange. That's a very business school way of thinking.

What good is "more code" from the LLMs, if I have to scrutinize it for bugs and vulnerabilities? More code only means more surface area, more points of failure. And of the AI I've tried, every single one writes far far far too much code. And all that time in code review, QA, user acceptance testing, that absolutely does not make the company more money - it costs them more money, in paying for labor. And it doesn't get the product to the end user faster anyway.

I'm just ranting and this a minor point, but speed is also not the only metric I would care about. I'd also care about making sure the user doesn't experience many bugs - preferably no bugs at all. The classic engineer's triangle still holds: "Fast, Cheap, and Good: choose 2." And AI seems to pick "Fast" twice. XD

I mean, it makes sense - more AI use means code is being written faster

This AI you speak of - is it in the room with us right now? Because if you mean to say LLM slop machines, then "code is being written faster" does not imply the code is in any way useful.

It's a company that sells 'AI' services to their customers. Most likely the major part of the 113,000 dollars is paid by those customers. They're basically resellers.

In London, you might be able to buy a shed with that 😅

The company I work for (publicly listed) has granted company-wide access to Copilot, but requires users to complete a pretty extensive (2+ hour) training module before you’re able to use it.

Pretty obvious stuff like, don’t upload sensitive data, validate output etc. I just use it as a glorified search engine usually - validating function syntaxes etc., and also cot rewriting email to be less blunt.

Really comes down to whether companies have; no tech departments to stop employees from using AI, small departments that don’t want to deal with the headache, large departments capable of managing the rollout.

Nah, you've just been lucky

What field you working in? I know some are more security conscious and don't allow AI for that reason (gambling, sports betting, banking)