Odd how you still see announcements of this nature if Anthropic's marketing is be believed.

Yup.

For me the biggest signifier is Spotify. They claim their (best) devs don't even code anymore, they use an internal AI tool that they just send prompts to which then checks out a personal test build that they can download off of Slack. "A new feature in 10 minutes!"

Okay, if that is the case, why have we only seen like 3-4 minor new QoL improvements in Spotify the last ~12 months, with no new grand features? And why haven't they fired 95% of their devs and let the remaining elite go buckwild with Claude?

The Emperor really has no clothes.

	▲	re-thc 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> They claim their (best) devs don't even code anymore No, they claimed they didn’t code during a time period. Around year end until early this year. Technically they could have just been on leave. Also best dev = principal / staff engineers. They rarely code anyway. AI or no AI anyone could have made that claim.

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QQ00 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anthropic released vibe coded C compiler that doesn't work, how their LLM can help in maintaining PyPy?

	▲	networked 39 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Strange subthread. I don't see Claude Opus 4.6 changing the tide for PyPy. There is no need to understate AI capabilities to claim it won't. "Anthropic released vibe coded C compiler that doesn't work" sounds like https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1 passed through a game of telephone. The compiler has some wrong defaults that prevent it from straightforwardly building a "Hello, world!" like GCC and Clang. The compiler works: > The 100,000-line compiler can build a bootable Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V. It can also compile QEMU, FFmpeg, SQlite, postgres, redis, and has a 99% pass rate on most compiler test suites including the GCC torture test suite. It also passes the developer's ultimate litmus test: it can compile and run Doom. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
	▲	riedel 32 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Anthropic released vibe coded C compiler that doesn't work, how their LLM can help in maintaining PyPy? This is the perfect question to highlight the major players. In my opinion, a rapidly developing language with a clear reference implementation, readily accessible specifications, and a vast number of easily runnable tests would make an ideal benchmark.

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Hamuko 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most maintainers don't have a stack of cash to throw at tokens.

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croddin 2 hours ago | parent [-]

They don’t need to throw a stack of cash at them, Anthropic and OpenAI have programs for open source maintainers.

https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss https://openai.com/form/codex-for-oss/

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justinclift 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Isn't the Claude one only for a few months?

(I haven't checked the OpenAI one, as I have no interest in them)

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Hamuko 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd say they're less of "programs" as they are "six-month trials". What's the plan after six months?

And for what's it worth, PyPy isn't even eligible for the Claude trial because they have a meager 1700 stars on GitHub.

	▲	ratijas 6 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If number of stars may help projects adopt AI, that makes me reconsider starring projects at all.
	▲	blitzar an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> What's the plan after six months? An unmaintainable mass of Ai slop code and the decision to either pay the ai tax or abandon the project.

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dapperdrake 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"You're completely right. That mushroom is poisonous."