Tell HN: No company scaled revenue as fast as AI companies
The article claims that AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have scaled revenue faster than any previous business in history. The author argues that current AI capabilities are advancing exponentially and significantly outpace human predictions, citing personal experiences of building software without writing code. The piece concludes with an urgent call to action for the public to contact legislators and for AI workers to halt development due to existential risks.
- ▪OpenAI and Anthropic are reported to have scaled recurring revenue faster than any company in recorded business history.
- ▪The author states that AI has resolved 99.9% of bugs and generated 95% of features for their project without manual coding.
- ▪Experts cited in the text estimate a 10-50% probability that AI could lead to the extinction of humanity.
- ▪The author urges readers to contact members of Congress and suggests that AI companies should immediately stop their operations.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840597 |
| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:50:23 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-25T06:05:29.233Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-25T06:05:29.233Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | CBWKQlZrf9FJ · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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No company in recorded business history has scaled recurring revenue as fast as OpenAI and Anthropic. Forecasts show AI is advancing far faster than all human predictions. If you don't use paid frontier AI daily, your mental model is likely far behind where it currently is. Even for those of us who do use it daily, we are shocked by the massive intelligence gains every time we use it.I am building a serious program using AI and I have yet to write a single line of code. AI has resolved 99.9% of bugs without me, and has come up with 95% of the features and roadmap. If AI costing a few hundred dollars can do this, what is going on inside the AI companies is beyond imagining.We are not on a linear curve, we are on an exponential curve.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.