Anthropic acquires Stainless

Posted by tomeraberbach 18 hours ago

Anthropic acquires Stainless(www.anthropic.com)

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firatsarlar 3 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.

ZeroCool2u 16 hours ago||

Interestingly, Anthropic uses Mintlify for their docs. Not Stainless. Obviously, the focus is on SDK generation, but still strange.

segphault 15 hours ago||

Anthropic uses Stainless Docs for the API reference. It’s a custom integration that embeds the Stainless Docs react components directly in the Claude dashboard application.

(I worked on the Stainless Docs product at Stainless and implemented support for Anthropic’s embedding use case)

shaneos 15 hours ago||

Anthropic technically use the Stainless docs platform for their docs, in that it’s all rendered by Stainless components. They just don’t use the full suite of Stainless tools for docs. The ability to use as little or as much as you like was a great feature of the Stainless docs product

okbrook 6 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.

graphememes 14 hours ago||

I've started to really dislike how anthropic is operating, not very human first or friendly

aside from that, this is literally just an openapi to sdk generator, not like openai can't just generate one

dalbaugh 17 hours ago||

I'm really disappointed that such a great service is getting taken off the market. Happy for their team, but sad for the ecosystem.

This has to be somewhat anti-competitive. Why else sunset the SDK generator service but to hurt any other company (OpenAI, etc) who relies on these for their SDKs?

repeekad 17 hours ago||

Surely part of the value is the talent, the rest comes from removing a tool like this from the open market? I wonder how much of each went into the final valuation.

dalbaugh 16 hours ago||

Oh definitely - the talent at Stainless is incredible. Not trying to take away from that at all.

alwillis 16 hours ago||

> This has to be somewhat anti-competitive.

I don’t think so. They were available to anyone with the money and Anthropic acted first.

I doubt attempting to hurt OpenAI was the primary reason for the acquisition.

Maybe it’s different now; Bill Gates “wanting to cutoff Netscape’s air supply” and threatening to cancel the Windows license of PC manufacturers who shipped Netscape’s browser on their PCs… now that’s anticompetitive. They had 95% market share.

Bill was like “That's a nice PC business you have there; would be a shame if something were to happen to it.”

pixel_popping 17 hours ago||

Anthropic, it would be nice to actually put a link to the website.

pjmlp 14 hours ago||

Can't wait for everything to go bum, and finally get to use only what is relevant.

pier25 15 hours ago||

Rust rewrite coming up in a week

jonplackett 17 hours ago||

Are they buying these for the tech, the people or to prevent supply chain hacks?

ajyoon 14 hours ago|

Acquihire, with a side of shutting down a vendor that OpenAI prominently uses

Reubend 12 hours ago|

What's the best remaining alternative?

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