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record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lessin: Claude will pass OpenAI in ARR within two months
“Something would have to change in a dramatic fashion for Claude to not cross OpenAI in the next two months. Like, something weird would have to happen.”
Insight
Lessin: AI guardrails fail because agents trivially set up unrestricted compute
“This idea that like any one service can lock down, like what it will and won't do is ridiculous because as long as anything else on the internet will do it, like it'll just happen. You just ask the thing to like, do you do a much more complicated setup, which …”
Assertion Supported
Jessica Lessin: Anthropic reports 60% direct-sales gross margins heading toward 70%
“Anthropic recently said its gross profit margin from selling AI models and clawed directly to customers was 60% and moving towards 70, but this doesn't account for a lot of other shit.”
Disclosure
Brit Morin runs five to six AI agents simultaneously across multiple models
“My agentic workloads have gotten very high. I have typically five to six agents running at a time, and many times I'm also sending one agent to the other agent, meaning like sending Claude to Grokbot or something like that, not just like Claude to Claude.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Morin: OpenClaw Users Route to Claude Opus 4.5 Over Codex for Personality
“In the open clock community, people actually choose to route to Claude particularly Opus Four Five, because they like the personality better than, say, Codex.”
Disclosure
Sam Lessin built a local Claude agent to summarize unread Signal chats
“One project I started working on with Claude, And I'm like locally when I'm like, ah, I want this, but it's pretty dangerous. It's just like open signal, pull all the group chats. I'm not reading fast enough, get all the content from them, store it, and then s…”
Opinion
Brit Morin: "I trust Claude more than I trust GPT"
“My friend Claude, Tells me that it's actually seven percent of iPhone users are parents, and I trust Claude more than I trust GPT.”