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Posted by tomeraberbach 18 hours ago

Anthropic acquires Stainless(www.anthropic.com)
457 points | 323 commentspage 5
nl 12 hours ago|
OpenAI use(d|s) Stainless too right?
phildougherty 18 hours ago||
Whats the connection that got them the early in with anthropic?
embedding-shape 18 hours ago||
A useful product that developers who want some easy SDKs across a bunch of languages use?
dgellow 18 hours ago||
Yes, but not only the pure SDK generation. The vision has always been to develop a platform that manages the end-to-end release process. In the case of Anthropic and other enterprise customers we also worked closely with their teams on their API and SDKs design, such as the development of the various streaming helpers
alexarena 18 hours ago|||
Brian Krausz
asdev 18 hours ago|||
I'm guessing it'll be something around spinning up MCPs easily as an evolution of their product. Just right place, right time
nightski 15 hours ago||
Why can't they just partner with these companies? Why do they have to take all these products, open source projects, etc.. and just destroy all that value?
rvz 18 hours ago||
I am going to assume that anything Anthropic acquires is going to be eventually used against you.
dgellow 17 hours ago|
For what it’s worth Stainless codegen output has always been owned by customers. The SDKs won’t disappear, and the team did spend quite a lot of time to make it possible to transition to self-service. I don’t see how that could be used against you
asim 18 hours ago||
Good for them. We built similar tooling at that time, but backed by our own APIs. It's something that has a lot of value, that standardisation needs to exist, but it also makes a lot of sense to fold the team into a company like Anthropic that is so developer centric. Good luck to the team there.
mikdan 16 hours ago||
Hopefully Stainless' products will remain available to customers in some form, rather than having them hogged for internal use. Give it time, not all is lost.
ezekg 17 hours ago||
Now if only we had a service that could generate OpenAPI specs automatically...
supriyo-biswas 17 hours ago|
The OpenAPI autogenerated clients kinda suck though.

My preferred approach for doing this is to have a hand-rolled SDK generator that reads the request, response and error models out of the microservice project and emits the same in each language targeted by the SDK, along with a minimal stub that calls the API.

You then spend 15 minutes at most, customizing the stub if needed, if you need custom behaviours like streaming.

ezekg 17 hours ago||
Not talking about the generated clients, I'm talking about the spec itself. If the majority of API services don't even have an OpenAPI spec, they can't use tools like Stainless even if they wanted to. A lot is being left on the table by not working on that first issue: companies don't have an OpenAPI spec. Been on my mind to explore that issue, because I run one of those API services that don't have an OpenAPI spec, but I have other priorities pulling my attention away from that. I just wish it was all handled.
dgellow 17 hours ago||
I generally recommend FastAPI, their OpenAPI generation isn’t always perfect if you have very polymorphic endpoints but it is really good compared to other tools I experienced. And is just a neat library that has been battle tested
____tom____ 17 hours ago||
You can't rely on commercial offerings anymore. They vanish with increasing frequency.

Yet another reason to use open source.

applfanboysbgon 16 hours ago|
Open source software isn't meaningfully insulated from this. Anthropic purchased Bun's maintainers as well and are effectively killing it, using it as a sacrifice to their AGI hype marketing. Could people fork it, technically yeah. Will anybody? Probably not, the original vision of Bun will probably go unmaintained while the main repo is destroyed with an AI Rust rewrite with 1m loc that no human ever read. If you were using Bun in your stack you're almost certainly going to be forced to switch to an alternative.
blazing234 18 hours ago||
looks like just an excuse to spend capital
pivoshenko 16 hours ago|
Wow
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