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johndough 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

Did Amazon really not turn a profit, or apply a bunch of tricks to make it appear like they didn't in order to avoid taxes? Given their history, I'd assume the later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_tax_avoidance

Anyway, this has nothing to do with whether inference is profitable.

DANmode 5 months ago [–]

It has everything to do with whether they make profit on paper,

vs give away the farm via free tier accounts, free trials,

and last but not least: subsidized compute to hook entire organizations………

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