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Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by supriyo-biswas »

ezekg wrote: post #34

Now if only we had a service that could generate OpenAPI specs automatically...

The OpenAPI autogenerated clients kinda suck though.

My preferred approach for doing this is to have a hand-rolled SDK generator that reads the request, response and error models out of the microservice project and emits the same in each language targeted by the SDK, along with a minimal stub that calls the API.

You then spend 15 minutes at most, customizing the stub if needed, if you need custom behaviours like streaming.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by dalbaugh »

repeekad wrote: post #50
dalbaugh wrote: post #18

I'm really disappointed that such a great service is getting taken off the market. Happy for their team, but sad for the ecosystem. This has to be somewhat anti-competitive. Why else sunset the SDK generator service but to hurt any other company (OpenAI, etc) who relies on these for their SDKs?

Surely part of the value is the talent, the rest comes from removing a tool like this from the open market? I wonder how much of each went into the final valuation.

Oh definitely - the talent at Stainless is incredible. Not trying to take away from that at all.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by renegade-otter »

dgellow wrote: post #36
pitched wrote: post #31

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

The plan can change with the right amount of money. Just ask OpenAI.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by alwillis »

dalbaugh wrote: post #18

I'm really disappointed that such a great service is getting taken off the market. Happy for their team, but sad for the ecosystem. This has to be somewhat anti-competitive. Why else sunset the SDK generator service but to hurt any other company (OpenAI, etc) who relies on these for their SDKs?

> This has to be somewhat anti-competitive.

I don’t think so. They were available to anyone with the money and Anthropic acted first.

I doubt attempting to hurt OpenAI was the primary reason for the acquisition.

Maybe it’s different now; Bill Gates “wanting to cutoff Netscape’s air supply” and threatening to cancel the Windows license of PC manufacturers who shipped Netscape’s browser on their PCs… now that’s anticompetitive. They had 95% market share.

Bill was like “That's a nice PC business you have there; would be a shame if something were to happen to it.”

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by throawayonthe »

dgellow wrote: post #36
pitched wrote: post #31

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

the plan isn't really up to the recipient of VC money lol

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by applfanboysbgon »

I had never heard of Stainless, but it is deeply concerning that Anthropic are able to use monopoly money to kill software at their whim. First Bun, and now this. It's one thing for a corporation to do it with their own money, because at some point the board will ask them why they're wasting money. But Anthropic isn't even profitable. They're doing this with billions of dollars of borrowed money. Same thing with OpenAI committing to purchasing an unholy amount of RAM supply and directly causing the 5x price jump, with money they don't have.

I don't understand how investors continue to fund this nonsense. Anthropic wasting money on this should be an overwhelmingly strong signal that the AGI hype is blatant fraud and that software engineers are clearly not being replaced by Anthropic's software if they have to buy more engineers for some tertiary, fifth-order concern so far removed from their main line of business. Yet they just keep getting more and more money dumped on them.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by 999900000999 »

pitched wrote: post #31
dgellow wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually that wasn’t the plan, no

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

Exactly. The goal of any VC by definition is to return a positive return on investment. I guess you might have a handful of exceptions, funds that are environmentally conscious, but profit remains paramount.
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