The Anthropic team looks to be eating all the usecases and application layer. I personally know of many figma + AI startups that are going to feel shaken up with this launch.

Anthropic has distribution on their side, their engineers are excellent (I have ran with them across the ggb in the past and they work 12 hours plus a day regularly.)

I think what actually might be slowing them down is the public releases and pr lol, not ideas or execution

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12+ hours a day regularly?

What a toxic workplace :/

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Sol- 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They are all very wealthy, or are about to be at the IPO. Seems like a worthwhile tradeoff.

And money aside, it is certainly one of the most exciting companies in the world to work for.

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		It's a horseshoe where the worst companies make you work 12 hours and the best companies make you want to work 12 hours.
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		Exactly the engineers I've talked to are all so EXCITED

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H8crilA 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Didn't know that anyone needed to hear that, but here it is: "hot" companies often have such workdays, especially pre-IPO and with such a fast growth.

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adrian_b an hour ago | parent | next [-]

"Hot" companies with stupid managers often have such workdays.

In the case of engineers and programmers, the amount of useful completed "work" has only a very weak correlation with the length of the workdays.

Good engineers or programmers will think anyway most of the time about the problems that they must currently solve, regardless whether they are in the office or at home or in any other place, and regardless whether to an external observer they appear to be "working" or they appear to do nothing.

Programmers who spend all day typing lines of code into a computer, are more likely to not be competent programmers, because otherwise they would have found ways to automate such activities that require continuous physical involvement, making impossible the allocation of enough time for thinking about the right solution.

If whatever they do does not require true thinking, then that is the kind of job that can be done by AI agents.

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namanyayg 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah exactly, if you're seeing your own stock go up like the Anthropic employees are, it's gonna be hard to not work 12 hours

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wmeredith 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> their engineers are excellent... they work 12 hours plus a day regularly

What? In my experience people who are good at their job can get it done in a reasonable amount of time. Working 12 hours a day is obsession, no competence. There can be overlap, but there is no causation.

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fg137 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

You can look at the number of github issues on the claude code repo and think about how many hours a day people need to work to address them.

Then look at the changelog of Claude Code. They are releasing daily.

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namanyayg 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

At a company like Anthropic, which is one of the fastest-growing companies in the world, there is more work than anyone can reasonably deal with

	▲	anentropic 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I thought that's what their product was for /s