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Anthropic acquires Stainless
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Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#62Now 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 stre…
Not talking about the generated clients, I'm talking about the spec itself. If the majority of API services don't even have an OpenAPI spec, they can't use tools like Stainless even if they wanted to. A lot is being left on the table by not working on that first issue: companies don't have an OpenAPI spec. Been on my mind to explore that issue, because I run one of those API services that don't have an OpenAPI spec, but I have other priorities pulling my attention away from that. I just wish it was all handled.
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#63Does anyone have a good guess as to the strategic reasoning behind this?
I know that common reasons for acquisitions are IP, talent, or reducing competition.
It seems like IP can't be the reason here. How is this strategically advantageous to Anthropic?
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#64Some clarity about existing users/SDKs would go a long way. Otherwise this reads like "we just bought OpenAI's front door and we're EOLing it. Hopefully no one was planning to use it in the future". Petty and pointless.
If you have an account you can go to https://app.stainless.com/transition . The team spent a good amount of time working on a way for customers to switch to self-service
I don't have an account but my colleauges do as my company uses the platform.
By self-service, do you mean that the SDK generators are now source-available so they can be run by end users locally?
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#65I 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.
Tale as old as the word "startup" even. Uber/Lyft did it with taxis. DoorDash did it with food delivery. You run at a loss for years while destroying your legacy competition by just outlasting them, then once you have cornered the market you squeeze.
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#66I 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 Open…
It's the developers of Carmageddon.
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#67Some clarity about existing users/SDKs would go a long way. Otherwise this reads like "we just bought OpenAI's front door and we're EOLing it. Hopefully no one was planning to use it in the future". Petty and pointless.
If you have an account you can go to https://app.stainless.com/transition . The team spent a good amount of time working on a way for customers to switch to self-service
I'm viewing this as a user of non-Ant Stainless SDKs. I don't have an account or relationship with you guys, and thanks to your (excellent!) product, the surfaces I contact don't have a direct dependence on your services. But that surface is intimately informed by the nuances of your product! It'd be nice to allay (or confirm) people's fears about how this might impact your other prominent users!
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#68OpenAI uses stainless for at least some of their SDKs.
from the very beginning. i remember going through their code and seeing stainless all over the comments. great marketing.
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you have an account you can go to https://app.stainless.com/transition . The team spent a good amount of time working on a way for customers to switch to self-service
I don't have an account but my colleauges do as my company uses the platform. By self-service, do you mean that the SDK generators are now source-available so they can be run by end users locally?
Yes, that’s right.
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#70> 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
That is WILD to put those statements together in the same article.