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points by giancarlostoro 1 day ago | hide | 0 comments

There's a lot of hype, but I think a lot of us will agree, hype is fine and dandy but if nobody can use it yet, what's the point in building up all the hype? If you build up too much hype and it misses the mark, you will be worse off too.

“Hey Claude, how do I market an exceedingly expensive product that I also don’t have the resources to run at scale if I find out everyone is willing to pay?”

All jokes aside I’m amazed at all of the people who have had absolutely vicious responses to any kind of skepticism of something we can’t use yet.

#1. It signals you’re ahead of the competition. This is an Claude moment. They turned down the DoD because they don’t need their money. Now they are saying why they don’t need it.

#2. It makes their partners with access feel extra special.

#3. Mythos doesn’t have to deliver on the hype. Tbh if more people tried opus they would be surprised at how good it is.

> #1. It signals you’re ahead of the competition. This is an Claude moment. They turned down the DoD because they don’t need their money. Now they are saying why they don’t need it.

Given all the shenanigans they've done to the point where Max users are running into limits they never have before, I think they need to tread carefully. Every other day I see more comments or threads of people just outright ditching Anthropic over this. I doubt many of the ChatGPT -> Claude crowd were on a Max plan.

I don't even think they need to show that they don't need DoD money though, they're not on the stock market.

#3 is part of my confusion with how they’re doing the marketing. It really is incredible.

Didn’t GPT5 show there are pretty major risks to this strategy?

>If you build up too much hype and it misses the mark, you will be worse off too.

that's not always true.

elon musk is mega successful. he lies and overpromises , 'hypes', habitually/incessantly. You burn one investor/purchaser/dupe-ee, you find the next.