Hacker News post argues AI companies are scaling revenue and capabilities at unprecedented speed

Summary

A Hacker News post argues that OpenAI and Anthropic have scaled recurring revenue faster than any company in recorded business history, although the statement is presented as the author’s claim rather than independently supported evidence. The author says AI progress is moving faster than forecasts and that daily use of paid frontier systems has changed their view of current capabilities. As a personal example, the author says they are building a serious program without writing code, while AI handled 99.9% of bugs and proposed 95% of the features and roadmap. The post interprets these experiences as evidence of an exponential rather than linear capability curve. It urges readers to contact members of Congress immediately and calls on AI-company workers to stop their systems. Finally, it cites an estimate that leading AI experts assign a 10% to 50% chance of AI killing all humans, and argues that institutions have little time to respond. The text does not identify the experts, provide supporting studies for its revenue or capability claims, or establish the stated probability.