Diane Penn: belief

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…That's so interesting that you may have developed this AI brain that can do something you're not even aware of. And so part of the job is just uncovering, "Wow, we just got really good at this thing. What can we do with that?" I think there's product overhang and user overhang, to maybe put it in our PM language, even on today's models. And I think there's a lot that we could be exploring on our current opuses and definitely with Fable, for example. And that discovery is actually another part of what's been in the early days of Anthropic's DNA. And I think it's also continuing to be a big part of how we operate in product, in Labs and across research. This makes me think about something Garry Tan's been talking about, president of YC, I don't know what his title is. He had this interesting point that if you are willing to spend $100,000 a year right now in tokens, you are living the way somebody in 2028 is going to live. Because by then it'll be really cheap. Everyone can work this way. But there's this alpha opportunity right now to just live in the future, go crazy on token spend. And so there's a big opportunity for people to learn what the future's like and also just build much faster. Thoughts on this idea and the value of token maxing, let's call it.…

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