Comment by lloydatkinson
16 hours ago
Anthropic feels like they are flailing around constantly trying to find something to do. A C compiler that didn't work, a browser that didn't work, and now solving bugs in Firefox.
16 hours ago
Anthropic feels like they are flailing around constantly trying to find something to do. A C compiler that didn't work, a browser that didn't work, and now solving bugs in Firefox.
This makes sense - they are demonstrating the capability of their core product by doing so? They dont make browsers, c compilers, they sell ai + dev tools.
Seems like a poor advertisement for their product if their shining example of utility is a broken compiler that doesn't function as the README indicates.
Impressive that it made a c compiler though? Or do we judge all programmers by their documentation now?
Capability of a product that makes non-working outputs at a premium?
I can hire an intern for that.
Will cost you a lot more ;)
I think it's a nice break from vibe-coding. It feels like a good direction in terms of use cases for LLM.
What was Anthropic's "browser that didn't work"?
I think they meant Cursor, cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646777
Solving bugs in Firefox is quite impressive.
However, the shape is there. And no one knows how good the thing is going to be after X months. We are measuring months here, not even years.
I believe there is a theoretical cap about the capability of LLM. I'm wondering what does it look like.
If it explore all these cases after a few month and made the tool itself obsolete, that sounds like a total win to me?
However that don't happen unless firefox just stop developing though. New code comes with new bug, and there must be some people or some tool to find it out.
I think OpenAI is flailing around too-- we're making an AI-generated shortform video app, we're rescinding restrictions on porn, we're making a... something... with Jony Ive-- but only Anthropic is flailing in a way beneficial to society instead of becoming a trillion dollar heroin dealer.
That's what people back then must have talked about small offshoots like Google and Microsoft back when silicon valley was nascent