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Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by skeeter2020 »

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.

OK, let's go to the source then and ask Claude:

What's the difference between a software developer and a software engineer?

The honest answer is that in most day-to-day contexts, the distinction is more about company culture and title preference than actual job duties. A "software developer" at one company might do more rigorous engineering work than a "software engineer" at another.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by nightpool »

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…

[EDIT: I'm an idiot, sorry, completely misread your comment. I agree on all counts]

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by applfanboysbgon »

nightpool wrote: post #222
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…

[EDIT: I'm an idiot, sorry, completely misread your comment. I agree on all counts]

Monopoly money is a figurative expression for "fake money", deriving from the board game "Monopoly", wherein players use fake bills as game pieces. I suppose it was ambiguous because I did not capitalize "Monopoly", my mistake there.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by fredoliveira »

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?

They most certainly are. This is Jevons paradox.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by nightpool »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #223
nightpool wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[EDIT: I'm an idiot, sorry, completely misread your comment. I agree on all counts]

Monopoly money is a figurative expression for "fake money", deriving from the board game "Monopoly", wherein players use fake bills as game pieces. I suppose it was ambiguous because I did not capitalize "Monopoly", my mistake there.

Okay, sorry, that was obvious in retrospect, I definitely feel kinda stupid now that I see it. In fact, I agree with your comment on almost all counts—I just see a lot of misuse of the term "monopoly" online, and I think I was led down a garden path by one of my sibling commenter's mention of Lina Kahn. No fault of yours, and I'm gonna delete my comment if I can :)

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

somewhatgoated wrote: post #208
smrtinsert wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what is the value in destroying those relationships? I assume it was acquisition to defend against another company owning a key part of their delivery pipeline, but killing the public product is just bad press.

the relationships and enterprise customers they have are probably wildly blown out of proportion and few if any actually used the product in production. They can also keep the product running behind the scenes for a select few and just shut down the public facing part

It would be weird if Anthropic were genuinely using it as they say they have been for years but everyone else was a fake customer.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by pdantix »

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…

if this is petty, then i'd love to know where openai employees having claude derangement syndrome sits on the petty scale

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by abirch »

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?

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.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by joe_mamba »

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?

>Why do they need the best software engineers? I thought their product was supposed to replace such roles.

Who claimed that?

Their customers will be happy if their product replaces all the junior positions and midwit developers off the payroll. then that's already a huge saving to any company's bottom line.

Even if it doesn't directly replace workers, reducing the bargaining power of those spoiled SW devs and not having to give them huge raises all the time or they leave, is still enough. That's the whole point of layoffs and offshoring anyway.

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