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Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The moment a group accepts VC money, this becomes the plan

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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> As we focus on Claude Platform capabilities and connecting agents to APIs, we’ll be winding down all hosted Stainless products, including our SDK generator. Starting today, new signups, projects, and SDKs will not be available. For better or worse, it's an acquihire.

"Hundreds of companies rely on Stainless to generate SDKs, CLIs, and MCP servers—the libraries, command-line tools, and connectors that let developers and agents use an API."

not anymore lol

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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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…

No, Anthropic spends a lot of effort to keep you from churning through those tokens with any binary other than their own.

Allowing users to take advantage of their monthly/weekly/daily token limits with the software of their choosing is a perfectly valid expectation.

Restricting it to their own underperforming, buggy TUI client is textbook walled garden.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Stainless blog post: https://www.stainless.com/blog/stainless-is-joining-anthropi...

I can't find the word "journey" — I'm disappointed.

“Journey” was probably removed as a non-load-bearing buzzword during the acquisition due diligence.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The moment a group accepts VC money, this becomes the plan

I was at stainless since the very beginning, I can tell you it wasn’t the plan

Yeah, but they now have new owner who might be having different plan.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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post #26
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You forgot this: "trust me bro".
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