"$5K a month, at the peak, from a single devoted “whale”"
So it doesn't tell us his monthly revenue ('at the peak' doing some heavy lifting), nor necessarily the total revenue, but I guess it tells us he has made at least $5k from it overall...
...earned from a single player he charmingly referred to as a "whale" (which, yes, I know is what they are commonly called in the mobile game industry but like, usually not to their faces).
But in any case, from Yegge's OP post:
> On the side I do occasional six-figure gigs where I fly to companies and teach them my techniques
Seems like being an AI Spiritual Leader pays well enough to keep him in tokens, at least until when/if a critical mass of people start adopting his system of stacking Claude subscriptions, in which case I imagine Anthropic will make that against their ToS.
They need him to continue evangelizing how to get a single individual to burn $87k/month so the corporations who have to actually pay usage pricing will actually make them bank :)
What if I want to buy copious amounts for a party? Or there was a discount so you want to stock up? This seems a bit shortsighted, it is not always the case that if you buy something then you need to consume it right away.
> For white-collar jobs replacement - we can always evolve up the knowledge/skills/value chain.
I'm not so sure about this one. I partially agree with the statement, but less-abled collegues might have troubles with this :( Ultimately there will be less stuff to do for a plain human being.
I think this is because the infra is already built and so there is no incentive to upgrade, since you won't get more customers, aside maybe taking them from competition. Afaik even the latter might be an issue, because typically you get whatever provider that is in the given building, so the provider wont get any new customers.
If I may suggest another read: Perfect Imperfection by Polish author Jacek Dukaj. It's definitely weirder, than Accelerando, as the book drops you straight into the last parts of evolution curve, but definitely worth reading if you have liked Accelerando.
The story is super weird, but what I found out is that piecing together a picture of a far-future society from this story was very exciting.
My policy about interacting with a person using a bot is actually the exact same as it is when interacting with someone who writes their own comments. This is actually very convenient because it completely eliminates any arguments about whether or not they are using an LLM or whether I have some sort of "bias" against them. My core argument is this: I treat the content coming out of it as being said by you. In this case the comments were of substandard quality. If the user was writing them by themselves, then the hope is that they will read my message and realize why and improve themselves in the future. If it was done by consulting something else, the idea is that they should reconsider the quality of its output. Either way, they're the one who comes out of it looking poorly.
I wonder if this can be connected to a fatigue that I experience during clothes shopping. Whenever I enter some kind of a clothing shop I get super tired after 10-20 minutes of searching for something, while my girlfriend could do that for hours on end. (I hate shopping in general it just makes me tired :( )
I love both museums & shopping, but I also tire of both after about 20-30 minutes.
This is why I have memberships to my local museums, I'll pop in for 20-30 minutes at a time and be content, and not feel like I have to "make use of" an entire entry fee.
At minimum 4k (given by whales = min 2 whales, thousands = min 2 thosands :) ) So I'm guessing that this covers Claud accounts.
edit: taking a look at https://yegge.ai/wyvern - probably outdated - the revenue is at 5k.