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Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by dwaltrip »

asdff wrote: post #156
fragmede wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Skill issue. Taxi companies aren't able to innovate and adapt and improve, despite the competition from Uber, preferring instead to use lobbying and regulations too survive in a post-Uber world.

Actually, it is a marketing issue. Taxis did innovate and did improve and imo are a better product than uber today. They have an app that is no different than what you expect with rideshare apps. Actually it is better, I can schedule a ride and get a flat rate with tip already baked in to places like the airport. No need to fret about surge prices at all, what I see when I schedule it today is what I pay when it come…

I’ve tried taxis like 4 times in the past 5 years or so. I regretted it 3 out 4 of those times.

Maybe I’ll try again in a few years.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by tedd4u »

windexh8er wrote: post #178
atomicthumbs wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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

I'm waiting for the Enterprise space to wise up. For anyone who's ever worked with any reasonably large company as a vendor (especially a small one) you know how painful redlines in legal can be. Why TF haven't enterprise made it more painful for these events? Basically state that if the service is purchased/sold/shuttered prior to the contract expiry date that a significant penalty (e.g. full refund) is required and…

This is why it's good to consider an open-source product backed by an enterprise support company. Growthbook is an example. If they go poof you still have dozens to hundreds of other companies, and open source base, and can collaborate with the other users (companies) to crate a foundation to carry on development if needed. Or just patch it yourself. There's a continuum depending on how critical and how deeply you exploit it.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by dwaltrip »

nicce wrote: post #168
urams wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should be noted that this user is basically an OAI shill account. You can look through their history to see this quite clearly. Anecdata, but I have a friend at OAI who claims that on both twitter and HN there is mild coordination of OAI employees to signal boost pro-OAI and anti-competitor messaging.

Does it matter? What of their claims were false? You should undo the claims, not attack the account.

Bullshit spreads around the word before the truth can even get its shoes on. So on and so forth.

Naive credentialism is obviously bad, but reputation does matter.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by embedding-shape »

urams wrote: post #116
gizmodo59 wrote: post #76

Anthropic is getting extremely petty and especially against oai - ad in superbowl about how they are the good guys. - dow public PR stunt (they are the ones to give Palantir their model access). - sues openclaw. - threatens every use of cc in oss community. - prevents other companies using claude saying they cant use when they compete. - never released a single open weight model. - Dario told OAI is Yolo'ing in compu…

It should be noted that this user is basically an OAI shill account. You can look through their history to see this quite clearly. Anecdata, but I have a friend at OAI who claims that on both twitter and HN there is mild coordination of OAI employees to signal boost pro-OAI and anti-competitor messaging.

> who claims that on both twitter and HN there is mild coordination of OAI employees to signal boost pro-OAI and anti-competitor messaging.

This happens for every single company that has twitter/HN/reddit users from the same company on the same platforms, I think it's also short of impossible to stop. I don't think I haven't worked in a single company in the last decade where that hasn't happened, in a range of scales.

If you weren't already, which you should have been really, you should be suspicious about anything you come across on the internet :)

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by IncreasePosts »

abirch wrote: post #229
EmeraldSky wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do they need the best software engineers? I thought their product was supposed to replace such roles. Yet look at the positions they’re hiring for in marketing, finance etc.: https://www.anthropic.com/careers/jobs Why aren’t they dogfooding their own products to replace such roles?

AI can let you downsize the number of employees that you have and maintain the status quo or it can let you maintain the number of employees, reduce technical debt, improve products, and services.

Do the economics work out ? You can downsize the devs you have, but you need to maintain a smaller stable of very expensive devs, and then factor in the token usage.

For example, a recent story about the openclaw creator using $1.3M of tokens/month. And let's assume he's getting paid $5M/yr which is probably a vast under estimate.

Is he providing value that a traditional software development org with normal developers couldn't provide for $20M/yr?

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Post by perplex »

EmeraldSky wrote: post #216
827a wrote: post #211

Anthropic is at a place where they need the world's best software engineers, and they're willing to comp at insane levels to get them. However: You simply cannot post a Linkedin job for "Really Good Software Engineer, comp $10M+" and make any sense of the inbound applications you'll get. They're not the first to figure this out, and they won't be the last: Successfully building a company, and using that company's pro…

Why do they need the best software engineers? I thought their product was supposed to replace such roles. Yet look at the positions they’re hiring for in marketing, finance etc.: https://www.anthropic.com/careers/jobs Why aren’t they dogfooding their own products to replace such roles?

I've seen this at work. Giving Claude Code to a mediocre programmer gets you mediocre results. The really effective engineers with coding agent can accomplish a lot. Thousand monkeys...

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by rattray »

serbrech wrote: post #163

Here is a powerful OSS extensible alternative from Microsoft. It’s what generates all azure SDKs, docs, CLIs now, and it’s really good. https://typespec.io/

TypeSpec is awesome!!

(disclaimer: founder of Stainless and also friends with creator of TypeSpec)

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by m3h »

m3h wrote: post #123

Congratulations to the Stainless team for their hardwork. We are offering a 50% off for the first year subscription price at www.apimatic.io for companies impacted by this. If you're looking for a solid long term SDK and docs partner, APIMatic is the OG CodeGen serving companies like PayPal, Maxio and PayQuicker for the past 10 years. Reach out to mehdi@apimatic.io and I'll help you migrate. PS: sorry for the shamele…

Helpful link: https://migrate-from-stainless.apimatic.io/
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