Anthropic engineer's plea: 'I just want to serve five petaflops'
charles_irl · x · 2026-09-17
Charles Fitzgerald, engineering lead at Anthropic, posted "i just want to serve five petaflops" — a deadpan lament about compute scarcity that hits the industry-wide anxiety of everyone fighting for GPUs.
Related event: Anthropic Engineer's Compute Lament Highlights GPU Scramble(2 posts)→
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