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Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by troupo »

dgellow wrote: post #332
trueno wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

do they have one of those websites that looks like all of those websites edit: they sure do

https://www.stainless.com/products/sdks/ I don’t understand your point, things look fairly clear to me, assuming you’re familiar with that part of the industry. We didn’t hide behind buzzwords and show you the end product right away

Yes, you do hide behind buzzwords. Because your actual front page is this: https://www.stainless.com/ not the sdk subpage

--- start quote ---

Best-in-class interfaces for developers and agents

Great agent experience is built on great developer experience. Stainless helps you deliver both, with robust and idiomatic SDKs, documentation that keeps up with your API, and state-of-the-art MCP servers, all derived from your OpenAPI spec.

--- end quote ---

There would be no questions asked if you had the SDK's copy on your front page. Or whatever you wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191376

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by troupo »

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 aren’t they dogfooding their own products to replace such roles?

Oh, they do. That's why they buy actual engineers to fix the vibe-coded slop they produce en masse: https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2026497606575398987

Unfortunately those engineers slowly succumb to the same slopcoding vibes, so they go and buy a bunch of new engineers.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by _el1s7 »

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…

Stainless didn't do anything new, in fact, there already multiple different SDK generators just as good

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by embedding-shape »

dgellow wrote: post #336
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.

You’re wrong though. Please take a look at https://www.stainless.com/customers/ . For context I was the founding member of our customer eng team, the main drive for Stainless adoption came from engineering teams who didn’t have the time/capacity/expertise to implement high quality SDKs + maintain the whole release pipeline automation across multiple languages. The pitch is „we want you to focus on your domain of expe…

> Which is IMHO very compelling

It is indeed, and I totally understand why people want something like that! Shame about the closing of the service though, which will pretty much make everyone turn away from similar solutions in the future if they're provided by a startup, as the rugpull Stainless is about to do will be a bitch to deal with for many.

The goal for the customers was to save time, little did they know Anthropic had other ideas for them :)

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by dgellow »

troupo wrote: post #351
dgellow wrote: post #332

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.stainless.com/products/sdks/ I don’t understand your point, things look fairly clear to me, assuming you’re familiar with that part of the industry. We didn’t hide behind buzzwords and show you the end product right away

Yes, you do hide behind buzzwords. Because your actual front page is this: https://www.stainless.com/ not the sdk subpage --- start quote --- Best-in-class interfaces for developers and agents Great agent experience is built on great developer experience. Stainless helps you deliver both, with robust and idiomatic SDKs, documentation that keeps up with your API, and state-of-the-art MCP servers, all derived from your…

I see, that’s fair. FWIW the SDK page was the homepage until the acquisition announcement

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by dgellow »

thunspa wrote: post #349
dgellow wrote: post #330

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In short: we take your OpenAPI spec file and generate idiomatic, best in class SDKs in various languages, a highly customizable docs product (for your API and SDKs, with neat specific examples ready to be copy pasted), MCP servers, CLI clients, terraform providers. Going further into it: the expected user experience for your team is that you create a PR in your own API repo, a GitHub action triggers builds for everyt…

This is very cool, congratulations!

Thank you!

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by zipy124 »

tikhonj wrote: post #247
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…

The top trading firms had top-end recruiting figured out for ages, without jumping through all these hoops. There are plenty of other reasons to acqui-hire, but it is not the only or even the most effective way to hire the strongest engineers

That's not true. It self selects for people who are focused on making money, not for the best software guys. There are for sure some people in that venn diagram who overlap, but it is not that self-intersecting. This is mainly because the best software guys are rather more interested in doing their own thing and hacking on whatever interests them, rather than what their boss wants.

It also only self selects for those who want to work in stressful/long working day environments, rather than those who value stability.

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by ahpeeyem »

robocat wrote: post #275
kaashif wrote: post #258

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Trading firms are surely not hiring for the broad founder-like skill set Anthropic is. Trading firms want narrow extreme technical brilliance.

> founder-like skill set Successful founder is deeply filtering for very uncommon skills. Effectiveness, grit, decision making, independence, technical plus sales ability. University is a shit filter in comparison. The current word is "taste" but even that is way too narrow. Intelligence is close, although usually too academic (hence the VC uni dropout theme). The other big problem with a independent capable people i…

Folks need to stop downvoting this and get back to their job applications ;)

Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Post by arkadiytehgraet »

solenoid0937 wrote: post #143
jrsj wrote: post #124

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It’s gotten better within the last month or so but historically there’s been an excessive amount of anti-OAI and pro-Anthropic activity on this site as well and I’ve seen numerous posts get downvoted and almost instantly flagged for calling this out more politely than you have here. So at least anecdotally I really don’t think it’s fair to portray this as OAI doing some sort of social media psyop as if others aren’t…

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…

This account is a confirmed Anthropic shill, by the way. Very likely all posts are LLM-assisted at least.
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