An Anthropic Employee's 'Make a Lot of Money' Button Drew 739 Upvotes and 332 Comments of Practitioners Calling It an API With Extra Steps

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A screenshot of an Anthropic employee describing a "make a lot of money" button became r/ClaudeAI's top post of the day, and the auto-generated thread summary after 200 comments records near-total rejection. The recurring technical objection is that the described mechanism is an API or an MCP server that already exists, and that a frictionless discovery layer does not delete SEO, branding or trust problems, it converts them into "SEO for agents." The second objection is reliability, that inserting an unpredictable LLM between a user and a service creates a black box, and the top comment (455 upvotes) reads the whole thing as a button that makes money for Anthropic.