▲ 851 ▼ Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 3 months ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 168 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] quips@slrpnk.net 35 points 3 months ago (2 children) This is the yearly salary of 5,000 well paid employees… permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] billwashere@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago Or since this was only in a month, 60000 employees for that same month. But imagine having a software studio with 1000 skilled developers to work on a project for 5 years. I have several good game ideas I could have created in that time frame. Some might even have made money. Likely not half a billion dollars but still…. This just screams money laundering though. permalink fedilink source parent [–] abc@suppo.fi 3 points 3 months ago* Also the monthly Claude Teams Pro price for about 4 000 000 employees. Which I'm guessing perhaps they weren't using. If this company even exists. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago Or since this was only in a month, 60000 employees for that same month. But imagine having a software studio with 1000 skilled developers to work on a project for 5 years. I have several good game ideas I could have created in that time frame. Some might even have made money. Likely not half a billion dollars but still…. This just screams money laundering though. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] abc@suppo.fi 3 points 3 months ago* Also the monthly Claude Teams Pro price for about 4 000 000 employees. Which I'm guessing perhaps they weren't using. If this company even exists. permalink fedilink source parent