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Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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post #9

I feel like we are seeing agentic coding tools morph into walled gardens with these acquisitions. Anthropic has restricted claude code usage while OpenAI has sort of let Codex fill the void. I am curious to see how this continues to evolve.

This is the whole point and the reason for the lofty valuations. Get everyone to shift their work to be dependent on these tooling, to the point they can't imagine working in any other way, and then raise prices. Tale as old as enterprise software.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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post #9

I feel like we are seeing agentic coding tools morph into walled gardens with these acquisitions. Anthropic has restricted claude code usage while OpenAI has sort of let Codex fill the void. I am curious to see how this continues to evolve.

I don’t really see where the “walled garden” complaint is coming from. Anthropic spends a lot of effort to keep you from churning through trillions of tokens on their flat-rate subscription plan, but that’s a billing detail, and one that I honestly don’t share the outrage about. The technology part of CC is still totally open: skills, MCP, etc. are all open informal standards and there hasn’t been any movement to loc…

Claude subscription is restricted to Claude Code harness

Really walled garden is the only direction that makes sense--models will slowly become commodities

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

#24
Just want to take this moment to say thank you to all the customers I had the opportunity to interact with during my time at Stainless as I expect lots of them are likely to be active in this thread. It has been an honor to work with you all and none of what happened over the past 4 years would have been possible without your trust and support

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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post #16
post #11

OpenAI uses stainless for at least some of their SDKs.

Third sentence in the article: > Founded in 2022, Stainless has powered the generation of every official Anthropic SDK since the earliest days of our API. edit: bah. no more HN before coffee.

OpenAI is not Anthropic, the original comment is valid.

Anthropic have bought out a tool their competitor used too, they even have an OpenAI case study still on the Stainless website.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

#26
post #21
post #9

I feel like we are seeing agentic coding tools morph into walled gardens with these acquisitions. Anthropic has restricted claude code usage while OpenAI has sort of let Codex fill the void. I am curious to see how this continues to evolve.

This is the whole point and the reason for the lofty valuations. Get everyone to shift their work to be dependent on these tooling, to the point they can't imagine working in any other way, and then raise prices. Tale as old as enterprise software.

Actually that wasn’t the plan, no

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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post #16
post #11

OpenAI uses stainless for at least some of their SDKs.

Third sentence in the article: > Founded in 2022, Stainless has powered the generation of every official Anthropic SDK since the earliest days of our API. edit: bah. no more HN before coffee.

> Anthropic

GP:

> OpenAI

??

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

#28
post #9

I feel like we are seeing agentic coding tools morph into walled gardens with these acquisitions. Anthropic has restricted claude code usage while OpenAI has sort of let Codex fill the void. I am curious to see how this continues to evolve.

That was always going to be the end point.

The amount of money thrown at it means at some point the words Return on Investment were going to appear.

It’s the classic loss leader applied to trillion dollar (across the market) capital investments.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

#29
post #7

I am going to assume that anything Anthropic acquires is going to be eventually used against you.

For what it’s worth Stainless codegen output has always been owned by customers. The SDKs won’t disappear, and the team did spend quite a lot of time to make it possible to transition to self-service. I don’t see how that could be used against you
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