Anthropic acquires Stainless

Posted by tomeraberbach 17 hours ago

Anthropic acquires Stainless(www.anthropic.com)

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m3h 14 hours ago|

Congratulations to the Stainless team for their hardwork.

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m3h 10 hours ago|

Helpful link: https://migrate-from-stainless.apimatic.io/

applfanboysbgon 15 hours ago||

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.

strange_quark 8 hours ago||

100% agree with everything you said. To your point, I don't understand why every acquisition like this isn't treated as a total failure on the part of the AI companies. If Claude is so good and software engineering is a dead career, why couldn't they have Claude Code fix its ridiculous resource consumption or rewrite itself in better fit language instead of buying a JS runtime? And I've never heard of Stainless, but generating API clients from a spec seems like the exact thing AI should be good at! It's totally ridiculous, the tech industry is completely rotten and I feel bad being a part of it.

BeetleB 13 hours ago|||

> 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

nightpool 11 hours ago|||

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

applfanboysbgon 11 hours ago||

Monopoly money is a figurative expression for "fake money", deriving from the board game "Monopoly", wherein players use fake bills as game pieces. I suppose it was ambiguous because I did not capitalize "Monopoly", my mistake there.

nightpool 11 hours ago||

Okay, sorry, that was obvious in retrospect, I definitely feel kinda stupid now that I see it. In fact, I agree with your comment on almost all counts—I just see a lot of misuse of the term "monopoly" online, and I think I was led down a garden path by one of my sibling commenter's mention of Lina Kahn. No fault of yours, and I'm gonna delete my comment if I can :)

dnnddidiej 12 hours ago|||

AI companies are the new tech companies

luketaylor 12 hours ago|||

in what sense did Anthropic “kill” Bun?

applfanboysbgon 11 hours ago||

Rewriting the entire codebase into 1m loc that has never been read by a human is an obvious recipe for software that cannot be maintained. Anthropic is all-in on marketing the concept that humans will not be needed anymore, even as they hire more humans. Bun is dying for the sake of hyping up investors and consumers with misleading claims about the real capabilities of their models.

Fun fact: Jarred has been promising a blog post about the Rust rewrite, but has missed his target dates for publishing it. In other words, that blog post has now taken longer to write than generating and merging 1m loc. Go figure :)

tosti 15 hours ago||

It's the developers of Carmageddon.

kgeist 15 hours ago||

Stainless and Stainless Games seem to be 2 unrelated companies.

n3storm 15 hours ago||

Wait Stainless is not a Rust company???

mirekrusin 15 hours ago||

Worry not, it's just Monday.

layer8 15 hours ago||

How could it possibly be?

gjtorikian 15 hours ago||

Utterly shameless plug, but recently at WorkOS I open sourced our OpenAPI spec to SDK pipeline: https://workos.com/blog/handwritten-sdks-are-dead

We evaluated Stainless & Fern for our 8+ languages but ultimately I couldn’t justify the cost nor ceding control to another organization for something as important as platform DX.

philfreo 15 hours ago|

We evaluated Stainless, Fern [1], and a few others for Docs & SDKs (soon, CLI) and ended up choosing Fern. Definitely glad we did after today's news. Hadn't seen WorkOS's work here though - thanks for sharing.

[1] https://buildwithfern.com/

yalogin 5 hours ago||

The acquisition process itself is not mentioned and they are shutting down the company. This is an acquihire. Congrats to the team, hope everyone made it out well and not just the top

sixdimensional 8 hours ago||

Astral, bun, Stainless, Cursor... and more..

Seems like developer tools/tooling are a hot commodity to the current big AI companies?

firatsarlar 2 hours ago||

Another acquisition. Another growth move. Please don't stop. Grow, run as fast as you can. So what? So you grow. So what? Grow. As you can. Can't some stay small... Just some. All the marketing effort — I'm no pro, just my perception — is a constant pain for me. Things I like, things I get used to, keep leaving the product. The thing that might actually do some good — possibly — sits in a queue, never sees daylight. So. Be a grown-up. An adult.

mattfrommars 8 hours ago||

Incredible and congrats. I'm doing a bit retro that during the boom of AI and LLM, I was busy doing my day job in Java CRUD and figuring things out about micro services.

It had never occurred to me to go like, "I'm going to make an open source product for LLM". How is something like built from scratch from an idea? And what is the idea?

For example, it is fairly straight foreword to build a dash board of something with React as front end + backend API. This will be a typical web app.

But stainless is something different, from my limited knowledge in this space, its appears to be SDK, something like OpenAI SDK that reduces boilerplate code to interact with LLM providers by providing list of tools (MCP), temperature, context memory and bunch of other parameters...

tschellenbach 5 hours ago||

We have a stack similar to stainless internally at Stream. Might open source it if there's demand.

okbrook 5 hours ago|

With all the hype that AI will disrupt software companies, replace software engineers, etc. Why did Anthropic acquired Stainless when they have the best AI for coding, why don’t they use it to replicate Stainless.

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