Comment by devin

Maybe it would help if I said I agree that this is a real problem that people are dealing with. However, I find it difficult to trust the words of a company that has agents "going rogue" due to their own negligence or for their own marketing reasons. It's hard to take their "we are experiencing tremendous growth"-coded blog posts like the one about their need for a new VCS seriously.

Just for comparison' sake: Google employs ~60,000 engineers. Anthropic has maybe 2,000. My uncharitable (and admittedly unverifiable) read is that even if they weren't directly experiencing this problem, the optics of being their size but needing Google or Meta-level scale for their work is a comparison they are happy to invite folks to make going into IPO season.

Maybe they do! But, well, I simply do not find them a reliable narrator.