Reading what Stainless is/was - why was this a company and not an open source project?
Anthropic acquires Stainless
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I can't find the word "journey" — I'm disappointed.
“Journey” was probably removed as a non-load-bearing buzzword during the acquisition due diligence.
It’s wild how each model version is obsessed with certain particular phrases.
*load-bearing* just started popping up like crazy with opus 4.7.
Although Claude will never hold a candle to Codex’s jargon, at least in my experience.
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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.
Could you briefly describe your workflow for doing that or give a pointer to a blog you wrote/like that aligns with the process? Thanks in any case, happy designing ;-)
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
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...
Then Anthropic's programmers must range from mediocre to bad, judging by the recent Claude Code leak.
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#315Anthropic 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…
> where they need the world's best software engineers
For what, to write regex to check for number of "fucks" given in prompts, or to write 20k LoC files with 20 levels of nesting ? As we saw in that Claude code leak recently.
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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.
Could you briefly describe your workflow for doing that or give a pointer to a blog you wrote/like that aligns with the process? Thanks in any case, happy designing ;-)
I'm not who you asked, but my workflow is the same it always was, just that one tool in the process is an LLM. That's it.
If I find a task to be annoying and repetetive, I use an LLM to do it, then validate it. The quality of my work only improves, and so does the speed, and I don't lose my skill over time.
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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.
Yeah at my last job we A/B tested hiring ads for the same role with developer/engineer alternatives.
It's just not the distinction some people believe it to be.
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Could you briefly describe your workflow for doing that or give a pointer to a blog you wrote/like that aligns with the process? Thanks in any case, happy designing ;-)
I'm not who you asked, but my workflow is the same it always was, just that one tool in the process is an LLM. That's it. If I find a task to be annoying and repetetive, I use an LLM to do it, then validate it. The quality of my work only improves, and so does the speed, and I don't lose my skill over time.
I am exploring ways to document the design for the agent to read and update. What makes it difficult is the lack of structure. Spec writing is not my core skill. Schemas and APIs are easier, there are declarative ways to document them. Runtime concepts and workflows have less structure and writing prose seems so unstructured for my taste. Formal languages are too rigid. But I could not find a better way.
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#319Good SDK tooling is a huge competitive advantage when you're trying to get developers to build on your platform instead of OpenAI's.
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I honestly believe that most Silicon Valley developers could have their pre-AI output replaced by 10 dollars/day in Gemini 3 pay as you go spend. I don't think existing companies will bite that bullet, but I think you'll see AI native companies in five years with like, a baffling small number of people.
Why in five years? Where are these hyper productive small companies running laps around bigger ones right now?
> Where are these hyper productive small companies running laps around bigger ones right now?
Getting bought by the bigger companies as it is currently the goal of most start-up since no one cares about monopolies and anti competitive behavior nowadays.