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2 NOV 2026 · Hacker News · 147 pts · 114 comments ↗

Anthropic's internal AI usage, valued at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay, with the company's Claude AI usage costing over 250 times its monthly employee compensation costs. This milestone marks a significant shift in the tech industry, where AI is increasingly being treated as a valuable resource, challenging the long-held assumption that humans are the most valuable resource. Anthropic's internal AI usage has surged more than 250-fold since January, with over 90% of its code written by Claude. AI summary