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Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by bulbar »

kaashif wrote: post #256
perplex wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I've also seen this. But I'll extend it to saying that giving Claude to a bad programmer gives bad results. And seeing how people use it: good programmers review output and iterate to get better output. But bad programmers simply trust the output is good: they have no ability to review it themselves and often don't try.

> giving Claude to a bad programmer gives bad results.

On average, the output is still better than what a bad programmer would produce.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by tintor »

fnordpiglet wrote: post #253
IncreasePosts wrote: post #235

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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 developer…

The issue is there’s non linearities involved. Although I don’t know I would use the open claw guy, but let’s take Isaac Newton. You can’t sum up people and arrive at an Isaac Newton worth of talent. He’s singular, unique, and irreplaceable at what he did. There were others similarly outsized in their ability to change things, and there are today as well. But you can’t funge talent at some level with more people - in…

You can replace Newton with Leibniz.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by osigurdson »

bandrami wrote: post #276
abirch wrote: post #229

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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.

But Anthropic is adding employees

Maybe smart to convince everyone else to fire and slow down while you hire and speed up. I don't think it is actually planned, but perhaps smart in hindsite.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by compounding_it »

I read stainless and immediately thought ‘stainless steel’. I thought some company developed the method and patented it. Now why would anthropic buy that.

But the truth is that this is actually not entirely impossible. The AI world is going crazier than this.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by mock-possum »

bulbar wrote: post #300
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. Normally I would say those Engineers would leave eventually, because there are not enough technical challenges and/or the pace is slower. But I guess when you pay much above market rate that doesn't really matter.

Also have you tried getting hired lately? Go where? They’re lucky to have jobs.

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Post by alexwwang »

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 need genius to promote the ceiling of LLM capability or dig out the potential of it. The best SEs often have better tastes in technique and business and they know why while knowing how. So there's a higher possibility for them to do master works quickly with the help and harness of LLM.

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Post by PunchTornado »

bko wrote: post #107
PunchTornado wrote: post #91

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Oai deserves everything bad that happens to them.

Why? They started the whole chatbot paradigm. They took the leap and are very generous with free tiers. I know people are upset about the non-profit thing but the fact is that was pretty much the only way forward if they wanted to have LLMs have the impact that they are having today. It's very much a question if they'll ever turn a profit. But overall I'm grateful OpenAI had the vision to get this ball rolling when c…

1. scam altman

2. non profit then for profit

3. least open ai lab there. when is the last time you read something interesting from them

4. collaboration with the military after anthropic backed out

5. scam altman

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by firatsarlar »

Another acquisition. Another growth move. Please don't stop. Grow, run as fast as you can. So what? So you grow. So what? Grow. As you can. Can't some stay small... Just some. All the marketing effort — I'm no pro, just my perception — is a constant pain for me. Things I like, things I get used to, keep leaving the product. The thing that might actually do some good — possibly — sits in a queue, never sees daylight. So. Be a grown-up. An adult.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by rienbdj »

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?

Effective AI use (in my experience) has human doing the load bearing parts by hand (schemas, api spec, overall architecture, domain types) then AI fills in the blanks.
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