Dario Amodei is the Woody Allen of the AI world always worried and neurotic about something.

Since when do people in Silicon Valley work for a mission?

If he were not such openly against open models and China, his potential hiring pool would include more idealistic people.

I doubt this is true.

New hires earn a small fraction of what existing employees make.

Here's an idea: instead of paying your employees $800k, how about you cut their pay to $80k. See how many of them are truly in it for the mission.

Who has recruited them?

Lol welcome to capitalism bro.

You dont get to kill off coding skills and expertise then expect people to give a f*** about some vision. The vision is that the people you’re hiring now wont have a job in the future. Wtf do you think people are going to do while the clock is ticking?

The paycheck is the thank you for working for your vision. That’s the end of the agreement and any good worker who understands capitalism.

It's always possible that the capitalists involved care so much more about money than anything else, especially people, that the acorn can not fall far from the tree.

They would know better than us.

Aren't new hires actually expected to need the money more than people who are already rich?

Funny, new hires are similarly worried the Anthropic CEO only cares about money, so they have something in common!

I, as an engineer, shall work for a mission and not (so much) for money. But as soon as the mission can possibly be completed without me using the latest shiny AI tool, it is okay for the company to get rid of me.