People surprised by Anthropic getting in on Blender funding obviously never saw any of the Blender/ChatGPT integrations a few years ago. This has been coming for a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhN7P7ENu4g

That was ancient times in LLM terms. I've seen demos that create whole scenes in a single prompt.

There are lots of non-coding use cases for LLMs that don't burn through compute but are still useful. Anthropic is starting to catch on, and it makes sense to focus there with the compute crunch.