alt Hacker NewsI'm also a bit confused what Anthropic needs all this code for. Their main product is selling access to their model, but the model isn't comprised of code, it's a bunch of weights right?
So the code is for the stuff around the model, claude CLI, the website, the API... that probably shouldn't be infinitely growing right?
Is there a bunch of code they are using as part of training, or as pre-processing or post-processing the requests to the model?
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mjburgess • today at 9:09 PM
Probably lots of internal competitor apps ready to release to wipe out SaaS/Adobe/etc. companies.
I did RL and evals at Amazon for a bit on Nova Forge (laid off in July! :D). I would have to push several thousand lines of code a day in new evaluations that our applied scientists requested since new ones are always being made along with having to create custom ones for whatever new model they were working on. Also, in RL, adding new environments for the agents to actually complete activates was also a shit ton of lines of code. So if I had to guess, just adding new stuff around model training and testing alone accounts for a ton of these changes.