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Anthropic acquires Stainless
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#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Anthropic spends a lot of effort to keep you from churning through those tokens with any binary other than their own. Because that's what the API is for. This isn't hard to understand. The cost you pay for subsidized tokens is lock-in. If you don't want lock-in, there's the API. This isn't egregious or wrong or anything. It's exactly what you'd expect out of a heavily subsidized product option.
This is missing the forest for the trees and it comes across as adulation for a corporation, when in fact, customers come first. Why are you trying to police people's opinion about a product? I never said I didn't _understand_ why Anthropic is doing this. What I'm saying is nobody wants Claude Code, the product. They want access to the model. Feeling strapped to a harness you don't enjoy working with and which may li…
Probably 99.9% of people subscribe to Max for Claude Code. I'd bet the amount of devs going for a custom harness is vanishingly small, and, well, the API exists for those use cases.
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#393I 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…
surprised I had to scroll this far to find someone actually pointing this out. This kind of acquisitions are alarming, to say the least.
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
> giving Claude to a bad programmer gives bad results. On average, the output is still better than what a bad programmer would produce.
No, it's much worse. It will take much more time to review and notice that it doesn't actually solve the problem at hand.
In this regard it's worse, true.
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#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
I am right now actually trying to change job. In Europe it's not AS bad as in the US, but still bad. I'm pretty niche (sensor simulation) so I don't struggle to get Interviews, but jobs that fit are quite rare.
I see a lot of AI openings though.
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is missing the forest for the trees and it comes across as adulation for a corporation, when in fact, customers come first. Why are you trying to police people's opinion about a product? I never said I didn't _understand_ why Anthropic is doing this. What I'm saying is nobody wants Claude Code, the product. They want access to the model. Feeling strapped to a harness you don't enjoy working with and which may li…
Probably 99.9% of people subscribe to Max for Claude Code. I'd bet the amount of devs going for a custom harness is vanishingly small, and, well, the API exists for those use cases.
None of that refutes my argument? Devs don't go for a custom harness because said harnesses aren't allowed to compete in equal standing with Claude Code.
Why are you on the side of making the lives of developers worse by giving them fewer choices?
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#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
| Newton... He's Singular, unique, and irreplaceable at what he did. Leibniz, literally parallel. Was Newton just a smart guy at the right place and the right time. These smart folks require other smart folks to understand and verify what they did. There are many who have amazing pedigrees in history.
Both Newton and Leibniz intersected with calculus but had incredibly diverse careers spanning many subjects that were totally orthogonal. So, no, in fact the fact they discovered calculus in very different ways proves the point even further - they were so singular as to arrive at similar breathtaking insights from totally different perspectives totally independently, for the first time in all of mankind. You can’t substitute one for the other, and each was totally indispensable and irreplaceable.
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
As a mostly non-programmer it got me a lot done. With about 5-10h over the weekend using free tier Claude and ChatGPT I managed to put together a scraper for a particular thing on a website I’m interested, grab the item images, do an initial pass with local OCR, if it hit some keywords, run openCV to crop for better OCR and dump the hits for further investigation. Nothing particularly advanced but it would have taken…
> As a mostly non-programmer it got me a lot done.
I guess this means that you have some good instincts or habits that would be good for a programmer, even if you didn't choose that path.
Programming is more than just knowing the syntax of the programming language and the APIs you want to use. It also requires clear communication and clear thinking, checking things, etc.
There is no reason why a non-programmer couldn't also think clearly or carefully. It's just a fact about humanity that most people don't; and many people have jobs that do not require this, so they never develop the skills. Some people develop them for job-unrelated reasons.
Now we are at the moment when the LLMs can do the syntax and APIs for you, but they still fail at clear thinking and proper caution. That elevates a good potential programmer to a good vibecoder.
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#399Anthropic 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. Fun fact, I named it "Stainless" after Stainless Steel pipes, likening ourselves to a high-end plumbing supply shop. If you look at the earliest versions of stainlessapi.com on archive.org, you'll see our original motto was "Quality fittings for your REST API".…
It sucks you succumbed to business practices that hurt your customers. If this were an aquihire, let us enjoy the product open-sourced. But it seems like the goal was to undercut Anthropic competitors, and you sold your soul :(
Re: Anthropic acquires Stainless
#400Earlier quoted context omitted.
> ... 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. Fun fact, I named it "Stainless" after Stainless Steel pipes, likening ourselves to a high-end plumbing supply shop. If you look at the earliest versions of stainlessapi.com on archive.org, you'll see our original motto was "Quality fittings for your REST API".…
It sucks you succumbed to business practices that hurt your customers. If this were an aquihire, let us enjoy the product open-sourced. But it seems like the goal was to undercut Anthropic competitors, and you sold your soul :(
He sold his business. That tends to happen quite a bit.