Anthropic acquires Stainless

Post by luketaylor » Mon, May 18, 2026, 9:35 PM UTC

lapusta wrote: post #179

benesch wrote: post #69

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Yes, that’s right.

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…

Post by nerdsniper » Mon, May 18, 2026, 9:37 PM UTC

b65e8bee43c2ed0 wrote: post #149

shimman wrote: post #134

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The only people "relying" on this are other startups whose VC benefactors force them to use other products under their portfolio in order to goose up their numbers.

that makes so much sense. I always wondered how the fuck did all those ZIRP era "hello world as a service" bullshit startups have any customers at all.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 18, 2026, 9:38 PM UTC

windexh8er wrote: post #182

CityOfThrowaway wrote: post #164

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I've raised venture from a lot of the big firms (and a lot of small firms) and have never had any of them attempt to force me to use anything.

You may not even see it. I worked in a startup whose founder had money dipped into about a dozen products in the cyber security vertical. Many of those startups, I later found out, had access or used products from others in his portfolio. Basically taking $50k and cycling it through all of them buying something from the other one. I doubt it was a money laundering scheme, but it sure was convenient to just add logos…

Post by luketaylor » Mon, May 18, 2026, 9:41 PM UTC

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #57

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 Open…

Post by ElFitz » Mon, May 18, 2026, 9:42 PM UTC

windexh8er wrote: post #178

atomicthumbs wrote: post #32

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"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…