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Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by yowayb »

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…

A lot of money is made this way. It'll take an act of Congress (or something on that level) but many of us are already "on the take" so to speak, so I doubt it'll ever happen.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by phoenixy1 »

varispeed wrote: post #246
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…

Wouldn't that be a misuse of data and likely illegal? If Anthropic can rummage through your data and workflows to deem you worthy of their grace, then that is seriously wrong.

I think what you're missing is that prior to the acquisition, Anthropic was a customer of Stainless. They did not need to "rummage through [their] data and workflows" to understand the quality of their product.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by phoenixy1 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #202
windexh8er wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Why TF haven't enterprise made it more painful for these events? Hadn't heard of Stainless before today. Did it have enterprise customers?

Yes, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Cloudflare, among others.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by riddlemethat »

rattray wrote: post #255
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…

> ... and their team is joining Anthropic to build, who knows, some dumb integration to make Hubspot data available in Claude, or something equally as boring. Fun fact, I named it "Stainless" after Stainless Steel pipes, likening ourselves to a high-end plumbing supply shop. If you look at the earliest versions of stainlessapi.com on archive.org, you'll see our original motto was "Quality fittings for your REST API".…

In the niches there are riches and boring businesses build wealth. Congrats!

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by fnord77 »

rattray wrote: post #255
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…

> ... and their team is joining Anthropic to build, who knows, some dumb integration to make Hubspot data available in Claude, or something equally as boring. Fun fact, I named it "Stainless" after Stainless Steel pipes, likening ourselves to a high-end plumbing supply shop. If you look at the earliest versions of stainlessapi.com on archive.org, you'll see our original motto was "Quality fittings for your REST API".…

I can't even figure out what Stainless does (did)

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by lapusta »

luketaylor wrote: post #201
lapusta wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the generators themselves were open-sourced (only the generated SDKs were already open-source). That leaves three main (recommended) options: * Manual Maintenance: Returning to the pre-Stainless era. * Agentic Coding: Works to an extent, but you lose the deterministic, review-free output required to keep an SDK perfectly structured and coherent. * Open-source Generators: Helpful for basic use cases, but…

No, the generator itself is being made source-available for previous customers

Huh! I see stlc option is added now mentioning "eligible customers", which is great news. I'm curious if we would also get GitHub action?

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by blackqueeriroh »

jviotti wrote: post #142

I'm finding these acquisitions (or acquihire?) are interesting. First Bun, and then Stainless. It's almost like Anthropic wanted to acquire every company that develops foundational technology that they themselves use. Assuming they bet on Claude getting much better at coding over time, couldn't they themselves cover their own needs with technology that they built themselves? Is some sort of autonomy over technology t…

It’s the fourth tenet of the Cook Doctrine:

“We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.”

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by thayne »

elAhmo wrote: post #217
aleph_minus_one wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Successfully building a company, and using that company's products, is actually the best job interview you can ask for if you can pay for that caliber of candidate. This tests for very different skills than being an exceptional programmer.

Yes, hence the term software engineer which has programming as just one part of the job.

It isn't a good test for that either.

Having a successful business requires a lot of factors that don't really have anything to do with software engineering. Things like luck, connections, access to funding, good marketing, etc. And while have good engineers on the payroll undoubtedly helps, the good engineers aren't necessarily the ones getting a big fallout from the acquisition and may not stick around for long after the acquisition, especially if they get put on a project they don't care about.

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