I used to love reading about everything Anthropic was building/doing but the way they’ve toyed with limits has really soured me on them so now I largely ignore the news except for when I decide to piss and moan. The AI space baffles me. One minute a company is the darling of the industry and the next they’ve drawn ire by taking a defense contract, introducing a bug that burns through all your tokens, cutting limits down to comical lows or just straight nerfing a model in production. It’s hard to keep up with how quickly public opinion turns on these companies but Anthropic has been especially rough lately.
Anthropic acquires Stainless
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#282We have a stack similar to stainless internally at Stream. Might open source it if there's demand.
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
IDK if I'd call it "better." HN did a massive 180 in the last month or two, and nearly every post or comment related to Anthropic is just a hate post. The amount of anger against Anthropic on HN doesn't reflect anything I see in reality (and I work at a pretty big FAANG with Codex and Claude Code, both are great) so I do suspect that OAI is doing some guerrilla marketing here, while Anthropic isn't really marketing o…
Honestly I expect it's just annoyed devs getting annoyed about the ratelimits on plans and post-hoc justifying. Now that Codex has far more capacity and their slot machine makes better outcomes (note: I am a heavy LLM-assisted coder) they feel like they have to justify their felt animosity towards these companies
Codex and Claude don't have meaningfully different rate limits since Claude doubled theirs.
Maybe you can get more headless use out of Codex but that's not gonna last. Investors are drying up and these companies need to get to profitability.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did use the word "software engineer" there, but realistically what they're looking for is exactly the name of the role they wear: Member of Technical Staff. Software Engineer, businessman, product manager, designer, agentic harness engineer, cloud, devops, all rolled into one. They want people who can own the entirety of a product from end-to-end. A responsibility domain so vast that most peoples' first thought is…
> I did use the word "software engineer" there The reason why I avoided this term is that in Germany, there exists a quite strict of whatx an engineer (Ingenieur) is, which is defined in the laws of many federal states (Ingenieurgesetz [engineering law]). "Ingenieur" (engineer) is a protected professional title: > https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ingenieur&oldid=2... (*) Falsely claiming that you are an Ing…
'Engineer' is also a legally protected title in Canada, so 'developer' is the common term.
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
IDK if I'd call it "better." HN did a massive 180 in the last month or two, and nearly every post or comment related to Anthropic is just a hate post. The amount of anger against Anthropic on HN doesn't reflect anything I see in reality (and I work at a pretty big FAANG with Codex and Claude Code, both are great) so I do suspect that OAI is doing some guerrilla marketing here, while Anthropic isn't really marketing o…
Personally i've just been using Claude Code with a coding agent UI (vibe-kanban) that has wrapped over "claude -p" for more than half a year without problems. I'd only been coding interactively and well within the terms of their subscription plan. I'm not even that much of a heavy user, I'm only hitting 10-40% of my weekly quota on a given week, and I basically only use the subscription outside of what Anthropic cons…
> They tried to spin their change as a positive change even though it was clearly not for anyone who was using a "claude -p" wrapper over Claude Code for better UX.
I feel like they were always fairly consistent (at least since OpenClaw came out) that wrapping claude -p in a non-Claude Code harness is disallowed by the subscription and requires using the API.
The lock-in to Claude Code is the price you pay for the subsidized tokens. If you don't want lock-in, that is what the API is for.
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's not pretend that any company will keep unsustainable limits forever. You can go to codex for free compute; they will enshittify the moment they build a meaningful lead over their competitors After seeing the whole internet being enshittified I'm still shocked people don't see through these very transparent tactics that every tech company has employed since 2012 or so.
I care about the compute I can access today.
Totally understandable, but then you forgo your right to complain about enshittification tomorrow!
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#287The acquisition process itself is not mentioned and they are shutting down the company. This is an acquihire. Congrats to the team, hope everyone made it out well and not just the top
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#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Anthropic spends a lot of effort to keep you from churning through those tokens with any binary other than their own.
Because that's what the API is for.
This isn't hard to understand. The cost you pay for subsidized tokens is lock-in. If you don't want lock-in, there's the API.
This isn't egregious or wrong or anything. It's exactly what you'd expect out of a heavily subsidized product option.
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#289With all the hype that AI will disrupt software companies, replace software engineers, etc. Why did Anthropic acquired Stainless when they have the best AI for coding, why don’t they use it to replicate Stainless.
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#290X: What are you folks doing? A: Writing docs at an SF AI company for $500k TC. B: Designing, maintaining, and implementing all features for a platform in the IoT sector in Spain — alone — for €40,000. A: Spain? I just bought a villa near the beach, close to Alicante. Do you know it? B: Yes..
There is a reason the EU has massive brain drain towards the US. This comes with the territory of being super unfriendly to corporations and high earners. It has its benefits too of course. Free healthcare, safety net, public transit, well maintained cities, happier median person.
While the EU does a good job optimizing life for the median person, it is a nightmare for the exceptional. It should find a way to fix this or the brain drain will continue.