They care about developers from companies that are on their team/enterprise plans or using bedrock.
replyIndividual users barely matter. That's probably also the same group that decides to switch to Codex/Kimi/[whatever the hottest agent on any given day] on a whim, which Anthropic doesn't necessarily want to do business with.
feel like its beyond optimistic on their part, just starting to hear their name be blended with companies desires on job listings, and they are destroying the goodwill of the devs who surely are the main reason their name has landed there. They aren't dug in like a microsoft, maybe they get some staying power for nocode people who feel trapped, but im done with their nonsense already and won't recommend them anywhere. Other stuff is good enough already to match.
reply> Individual users barely matter.
replyIndividuals are the ones that push for new tools at work though.
A fraction of them do. Many just use whatever the employer provides to get their job done. HN users only represent a small sample of the overall software developers which is nowhere nearly enthusiastic about new things.
replySource: what I witnessed at my company
In the end, companies are made of individuals. In my previous company, I'm one of the individual who advocate for Claude Code adoption. Amongst my circle too, most who have the authority to make an impact on the AI direction. Safe to say I no longer suggest Anthropic to anyone anymore.
replythey don't care about their reputation with devs, they care about their reputation with people that can write them big fat checks
replyAt my company, devs were the ones pushing for the Claude subscription. Left to management, we would have only had GitHub Copilot – we already have an existing relationship with them and the tool is good enough.
replyIf Anthropic is intent on losing the goodwill of the devs, they might not be happy with the consequences. Their product is quite commoditized at this point – the latest GPT, Gemini or GLM is just as good for most enterprise tasks.
I suspect their ICP is changing from developers to enterprise decision makers, completely different personas
replyWhere I work. Medium size, base in Europe company. It is paying over 1800 per dev in AI tools. Home users stand no chance.
replyThey got contracts from Enterprises now
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replyAlso note that they are letting OpenClaw be used again with `claude -p`, so a partial reversal
replyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853799 for the curious
replyAnd I thought MS was confused one on how to do pricing and business decisions.
replyLast I saw they have 21 products or services named Copilot. I think they still win the confusion prize.
replyWe should have "The Copilot Award goes to..." Every year for the most confusing product name/lineup
replyI love it. It’ll be doubly funny when the Xbox marketing team wins the Copilot Confusion Award.
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