Judging by how it feels being a customer and using their products, I can confidently say:
reply1. Yes, we know, and can tell.
2. No, they haven't figured out anything. Just vibe coding it with their bleeding dege models.
> No, they haven't figured out anything. Just vibe coding it with their bleeding dege models.
replyI'm sure you were saying "bleeding edge" but my first impression was to translate dege to mean degen/degenerate which made this so much more fun to read.
They work on research problems you can define a clear solution criteria for.
replyThe kinds of business software I work on don't have those characteristics. If I needed something like a utils library, I think I could easily have Claude write the whole thing and not read the code.
What puzzles me is this: research means that we are exploring something that has not done before, yet using Claude to generate code means slicing and dicing what has been done many times before. So, I'm not sure how to make sense of both at the same time: Anthropic is pushing the boundary of AI, yet all the knowledge and engineering in form of code can be generated from the previous code?
replyAs always, the essential skill in engineering is not providing the right answer it's about asking the right questions.
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