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applfanboysbgonyesterday at 6:04 PM5 repliesview on HN

I 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 OpenAI committing to purchasing an unholy amount of RAM supply and directly causing the 5x price jump, with money they don't have.

I don't understand how investors continue to fund this nonsense. Anthropic wasting money on this should be an overwhelmingly strong signal that the AGI hype is blatant fraud and that software engineers are clearly not being replaced by Anthropic's software if they have to buy more engineers for some tertiary, fifth-order concern so far removed from their main line of business. Yet they just keep getting more and more money dumped on them.


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nightpoolyesterday at 10:16 PM

[EDIT: I'm an idiot, sorry, completely misread your comment. I agree on all counts]

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BeetleByesterday at 8:40 PM

> 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 almost sounds like you want Lina Khan back :-D

dnnddidiejyesterday at 9:22 PM

AI companies are the new tech companies

luketayloryesterday at 9:41 PM

in what sense did Anthropic “kill” Bun?

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tostiyesterday at 6:11 PM

It's the developers of Carmageddon.

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