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I care about the compute I can access today.
Totally understandable, but then you forgo your right to complain about enshittification tomorrow!
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I understand the cynism but it’s not the case here. Stainless isn't a case of blitzscaling or running a loss for years to destroy the competition. The motto of the company is polished and robust and we invested a lot into generating what we think are the highest quality SDKs available. We could have shipped things way, way faster if the focus on design and quality wasn’t such an essential part of the development proc…
Don't you feel unqualified to make such statements since you have a obvious bias and extreme financial $tak€ here? Did we all lose are critical thinking during COVID or something?
Of course Sam is "qualified" to speak to the ethos of Stainless, he was there longer than anyone except the founder.
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There is a reason the EU has massive brain drain towards the US. This comes with the territory of being super unfriendly to corporations and high earners. It has its benefits too of course. Free healthcare, safety net, public transit, well maintained cities, happier median person. While the EU does a good job optimizing life for the median person, it is a nightmare for the exceptional. It should find a way to fix thi…
Do you have any numbers to back that up, especially the massive brain drain? I’d like to think I’m overall a competent person who wouldn’t mind relocating for an interesting opportunity, but the US can get fucked for a what’s actually a long list of reasons.
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I can't even figure out what Stainless does (did)
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…
X: What are you folks doing? A: Writing docs at an SF AI company for $500k TC. B: Designing, maintaining, and implementing all features for a platform in the IoT sector in Spain — alone — for €40,000. A: Spain? I just bought a villa near the beach, close to Alicante. Do you know it? B: Yes..
There is a reason the EU has massive brain drain towards the US. This comes with the territory of being super unfriendly to corporations and high earners. It has its benefits too of course. Free healthcare, safety net, public transit, well maintained cities, happier median person. While the EU does a good job optimizing life for the median person, it is a nightmare for the exceptional. It should find a way to fix thi…
Stainless seems to do that boring but very important work of turning API specs into clean SDKs and tools.
This makes sense since they may want the team inside if they are serious about making Claude agents actually useful in real products. Good move I think.
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. 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".…
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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.
I said difference between a _programmer_ and a _software engineer_ (or _software developer_, it is irrelevant in this context).