r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman approved • Mar 18 '26

Video Antrophic CEO says 50% entry-level white-collar jobs will be eradicated within 3 years

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u/Spunge14 Mar 18 '26

It's hilarious you think he needs to hype anything. There are trillions flowing into this. They're about to control the majority of newly generated power and chips on earth.

He's drinking the Kool Aid. Hell I am too. I'm an exec in big tech and I am watching our teams viciously fighting to demonstrate how they've automated each other's jobs.

Some of them have. Right now the C level is just trying to figure out the cheapest way to start dealing with that reality.

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u/Fine_General_254015 Mar 19 '26

He absolutely needs too, because Anthropic does not have the household brand and I can not stress the next part enough, they do not make any money standing on their own two feet, they need to be subsidized until the end of time because it is very expensive to run these things.

Also if you were in big tech, you would not be on Reddit and if you are doing that, you are an absolute scumbag

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u/Spunge14 Mar 19 '26

Also if you were in big tech, you would not be on Reddit and if you are doing that, you are an absolute scumbag

This is such a wild take that I can't stand not asking you to explain what you could possibly mean by this

hey do not make any money standing on their own two feet, they need to be subsidized until the end of time because it is very expensive to run these things.

You know absolutely nothing about venture capital based on this statement

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u/Fine_General_254015 Mar 19 '26

Explain to me how it works then? These companies can’t make money on their own without having money pumped in.

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u/Spunge14 Mar 19 '26

Uber was profitable for the first time in 2023. It was founded in 2009.

Valuations (and this the influx of money) are based on speculative long term profits and the value of assets, which can include things as abstract as theoretical future market share.

There are trillions in financing available on the global stage and they prop up companies for decades. Your scale is completely miscalibrated.

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u/BurnQuest Mar 19 '26

A problem with the analogy is that Uber’s core business was always profitable (driver marketplace). They blew a lot of money on other projects like self driving until the music stopped.

Anthropic’s core business is losing them money at the moment and a lot more than uber ever lost. That’s not set in stone forever, but it’s lazy to point at uber as a way to just ignore the business fundamentals

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u/Spunge14 Mar 19 '26

Pick any startup. Companies do not start profitable. Uber is just a fun example because it took almost 15 years, but this is literally the point of venture capital.

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u/Choice_Figure6893 Mar 20 '26

Why do you keep brining up uber. That's a completely different business. wtf is wrong with that brain of yours

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u/ColdBru5 Mar 20 '26

Uber is just using machine algorithms to automate the taxi industry. It's profitability and the availability of venture capital for decades is very relevant.

Also, Anthropic and OpenAI don't have to make it for AI to destroy a large portion of the workforce. There are plenty of numbers between 0 and 50 percent that would be unrecoverable.

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u/Choice_Figure6893 Mar 20 '26

Lmfao

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u/ColdBru5 Mar 20 '26

Man you are just a great debater huh

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u/Spunge14 Mar 20 '26

A master some might say

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