Comment by pmbauer
4 days ago
Anthropic effectively doing a "git clone" with extra steps here. Uncharitable? I don't think so. If this were about functionality, why not use Sapling/Mononoke or extend it and contribute back to the open source community? Because that doesn't juice the IPO valuation.
I think it's worse than just IPO juicing. I think it's "look what our agents can do" and also pushing more on the "software engineers are becoming obsolete" line that Dario public-pronounces. Getting high on their own supply.
Projects seem to be getting approved or pushed there purely on the basis of showing off that they can vibe-build infrastructure.
Which.. yes, you can. But now maintain it. Understand it. Manage thousands of people using it. Those are part of the reasons we re-use proven solutions rather than rolling our own -- not just because the coding part is hard.
Same thing happened with the Bun rewrite. "Oh wow, look what we can do! What's that, nobody adult supervision telling us that this is a bad idea? Let's go!"
The most horrible thing is they don't read their own code. They read the "intent"
On one hand they say AI will end the world. On other hand they say well, we just merge PR by reading the "intent" which I think is the AI summary
git clone would be good. looks more like a peforce evolution tbh
Yet another company is running a bigger-fool scam. They hope idiots will buy their shares during IPO and they wont give a fuck anymore.
I cannot hate them - its rational in its ways. But I hate the idiots who fall for it with each new IPO.