Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found product-market fit with coding agents, which are quickly becoming daily drivers for very well-paid professionals
Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised …
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Discussion
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Simon Willison
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Given the recent burst of activity around enterprise pricing and contracts, I think April 2026 was the month when both OpenAI and Anthropic found product-market fit https://simonwillison.net/...
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@capitaltruist
Dave Nunez
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congrats to OpenAI and Anthropic for finally reaching Level 3 PMF. With heads down and noses clean, Level 4 is now a possibility. [image]
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r/theprimeagen
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I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
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Dare Obasanjo
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I agree with Simon Willison: AI agents like Claude Code have found product market fit. Like spreadsheets and email, they are how we work now. — The interesting detail in his post is that while consumer usage is still subsidized, Claude & ChatGPT raised April enterprise pricing…
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r/BetterOffline
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Axios: AI sticker shock hits corporate America
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Simon Willison makes the case that OpenAI and Anthropic have fully found product-market fit with enterprise agents/coding. A key stat: 33% of OpenAI and 26% of Anthropic open job listings are enterprise sales and support type roles. [image]
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r/NoShitSherlock
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AI sticker shock hits corporate America
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r/Economics
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AI sticker shock hits corporate America
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Mike Masnick
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As per usual, Simon is making some really good points here. I think the success of agentic tools in the enterprise side of things is a big deal, but it will be interesting to see how that impacts consumer AI. [embedded post]