Comment by afavour

8 days ago

I wouldn’t use language as strong as OPs but it is against the spirit of FOSS for a corporate owner to use a private prerelease version of their open source software.

I think it’s valid to object to. If 1.4 is good enough to be used by Claude, why not us?

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kstenerud  8 days ago

So you wouldn't, for example, after doing a complete ground-up rewrite, perhaps spend a few months dogfooding it to work out the worst bugs before unleashing it upon the public, thus maximizing your initial velocity by minimizing the blast radius and support requests and triage during this phase?

  • realo  8 days ago

    It's Anthropic. I am pretty sure they spent time dogfooding it to Mythos or an even more advanced model.

    That might even be the reason why they switched to rust.

    Don't worry too much.

  • afavour  8 days ago

    > before unleashing it upon the public

    …but they have? Claude users are public, no? If they were dogfooding internally I’d agree with you.

    • kstenerud  8 days ago

      Yeah. One single project that they control. Not thousands of other people's projects breaking, I'm sure with a ton of HN outcry over releasing "this pile of vibe coded slop" upon the poor populace.

      You just can't win.

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