Comment by Larrikin

18 hours ago

Why is management at Anthropic trying so hard to ruin their reputation with developers? I missed the OpenClaw hype but it was something that kept me excited about my yearly subscription.

It makes no sense to do one of the higher tier plans unless they are directly generating you money.

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fg137  17 hours ago

They care about developers from companies that are on their team/enterprise plans or using bedrock.

Individual users barely matter. That's probably also the same group that decides to switch to Codex/Kimi/[whatever the hottest agent on any given day] on a whim, which Anthropic doesn't necessarily want to do business with.

  • sidrag22  16 hours ago

    feel like its beyond optimistic on their part, just starting to hear their name be blended with companies desires on job listings, and they are destroying the goodwill of the devs who surely are the main reason their name has landed there. They aren't dug in like a microsoft, maybe they get some staying power for nocode people who feel trapped, but im done with their nonsense already and won't recommend them anywhere. Other stuff is good enough already to match.

  • tayo42  17 hours ago

    > Individual users barely matter.

    Individuals are the ones that push for new tools at work though.

    • fg137  17 hours ago

      A fraction of them do. Many just use whatever the employer provides to get their job done. HN users only represent a small sample of the overall software developers which is nowhere nearly enthusiastic about new things.

      Source: what I witnessed at my company

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michaelcampbell  2 hours ago

> Why is management at Anthropic trying so hard to ruin their reputation with developers?

They follow the money, like every other company.

mrhottakes  17 hours ago

they don't care about their reputation with devs, they care about their reputation with people that can write them big fat checks

  • plutokras  17 hours ago

    At my company, devs were the ones pushing for the Claude subscription. Left to management, we would have only had GitHub Copilot – we already have an existing relationship with them and the tool is good enough.

    If Anthropic is intent on losing the goodwill of the devs, they might not be happy with the consequences. Their product is quite commoditized at this point – the latest GPT, Gemini or GLM is just as good for most enterprise tasks.

    • michaelcampbell  2 hours ago

      Exactly the same for me, and I'm now ... "worried" isn't quite right, but you know what I mean, that they will back out. But to what? We had copilot before which was cheaper, and worked reasonably well with the A\ models, but I'm not even sure those will be there (Opus is no longer on my cheapest paid Copilot sub at home), and I've no doubt OpenAI will jack up their prices soon enough and/or do the "exclusivity" thing so they can only be accessed by their own clients.

papichulo2023  17 hours ago

Where I work. Medium size, base in Europe company. It is paying over 1800 per dev in AI tools. Home users stand no chance.

dear_prudence  9 hours ago

I suspect their ICP is changing from developers to enterprise decision makers, completely different personas