Posted by meetpateltech 7 days ago
With that said, this seems like it's just claude code + simplified devtools in a container? Will need to spend more time with it to see how EG commenting influences things, but 5 minutes in, this seems like it's needless formalization on top of how I already used claude for deisgn
This will fail because it's already a forgotten side project within anthropic, and anthropic also has pretty bad product DNA as a company. Their headcount is already too large and the culture is already set. They grew revenue so fast they speedran the stage at which you could build software product chops into the company culture (think Google circa 2008 vs. Google circa 2018).
They should focus on what they're good at: the actual AI models and B2B sales. Let OpenAI play early Google and churn through 100 different consumer product experiences to see what sticks, they're better positioned for it anyways.
Maybe they realised its actually a dead-end? Why else would you not double-down and concentrate resources? This would be an amateur error if it turned out to be true.
Imagine if a designer were hired to custom design the lightswitches in every building. We need to get back to off-the-shelf interfaces and stop wasting smart people's time reinventing UI widgets.
Like what they have some superior knowledge or ability to design ?
Let me remind you they weren't always tech giants, what if we said lets stop innovating before apple or any of these became a thing.
No, but they have the scale where that level of specialty makes sense. McDonald's has food chemists on staff, but the local burger joint does not.
> what if we said lets stop innovating before apple or any of these became a thing
It's important for any organization to know what its competitive advantage is and where to spend its innovation tokens. D.R. Horton is the number one homebuilder in the United States, but they don't make their own light switches.
Now they do, they didnt always, you have to start from somewhere, you always start small you dont just become a huge company instantly. Also wtf kind of an analogy is that ? Oh yeah chemists never innovate on your own or at a small scale we have big corpos doing it so you guys can stop now thanks
I think you have heard the rather famous quote "Its better to be a pirate than join the navy", small scale stuff can move a lot lot faster than some huge conglomerate.
I agree that not everyone needs to roll their own design but i think your conclusion is rather idiotic.