All things considered Anthropic seems like they’re doing most things the right way, and seemed to be focused on professional use more than OpenAI and Grok, and Opus 4.5 is really an incredibly good model.

Yes, they know how to use their safety research as marketing, and yes, they got a big DoD contract, but I don’t think that fundamentally conflicts with their core mission.

And honestly, some of their research they publish is genuinely interesting.

Dario is definitely more grounded than Sam, I thought Anthropic would get crowded out between Google and the Chinese labs, but they might be able to carve out a decent niche as the business focused AI for people who are paranoid about China.

They didn't invest terminal agents really though, Aider was the pioneer there, they just made it more autonomous (Aider could do multiple turns with some config but it was designed to have a short leash since models weren't so capable when it was released).

> Also for inventing the code agent in the terminal category.

Maybe I am wrong, but wasnt aider first?

>Also for inventing the code agent in the terminal category.

Not even close. That distinction belongs to Aider, which was released 1.5 years before Claude Code.

Anthropic isn't any more moral or principled than the other labs, they just saw the writing on the wall that they can't win and instead decided to focus purely on coding and then selling their shortcomings as some kind of socially conscious effort.

It's a bit like the poorest billionaire flexing how environmentally aware they are because they don't have a 300ft yacht.