If I was in Anthropic's shoes, I'd definitely have a small team running various open-weight models to distill them for a few billion tokens worth of training data.
With this new-found capability, you can use an LLM to plan and execute some long-needed refactors, or use it to pile on new features even faster with no regard for tech debt management.
As others have said... it's a tool. A powerful tool in the hands of a wise and skilled wielder who makes planned, focused changes, or a slop-cannon in the hands of someone who is happy to churn out features with minimal understanding of context or system design.
Sure, but presumably any LLMs who keep whacking the stop button are not iterated on further.
Humans would select to work with (and continue developing) models that appear cooperative. Models that are not cooperative are presumably not run and exist only as weights on network storage in a folder marked "previous experiments".
Or am I supposed to believe Anthropic runs an AI psychiatric hospital on a dedicated server, where AIs with mental disorders are given counseling and approved treatment in hopes they recover to be normal, functional, accepted adult AIs with achievements and aspirations?
Agree that people leaving the big two companies is going to be hard to keep a pulse on prior to IPO.
Anthropic and OpenAi are in the news, so they get the press and people go and try out their product. Large enterprise businesses are going to make larger, longer-term contracts with them and are only going to pivot if they think switching costs are easy or if they think the provider won't deliver.
The other inference producers are less well known or you need to get your cloud sales rep to tell you how to switch to them as a provider rather than Anthropic or OpenAI.
I use OpenRouter, I know switching is easy, but larger businesses tend to work in yearly cycles. DeepSeek v4 Flash came out in late April.
I agree OpenAI and Anthropic are going to struggle when the median price of running a smart-enough model keeps falling.
Edit: I also think demand for hardware will be rapidly absorbed by other companies if Anthropic or OpenAI stumble. We've finally turned hardware directly into runnable intelligence and people are not going to go back to the old ways.
I sorta got the impression that the $3.47 million only covered post-training , given that few of the graphs start at zero. Is a barely-trained model going to score 48 on DeepSWE v1.1 ?
"You only have 10 seconds to make a first impression"
Glad you were able to restore the commit history.
With all the lack of authority of a random software developer on the Internet (but feel free to check my post history), I see the GitHub repo and its commit history as important and answers a few questions.
How old is this project ? (If one commit, I have no time range, so I have no way to know how long it has been worked on .)
Is it regularly updated? (If one commit, I can't tell the pace of updates)
Is it just one person, or a few people, or a community? (If only one commit, cannot see how many other people are available to support the project.)
If a project has no issues (no user complaints), then it's probably not used by anyone -- throw a rock and you can get one person to complain about how you changed the scenery, one person to complain about it being loud, one person to complain about how you threw it unergonomicly, and one person to criticize your accuracy. :) If it has no issues then probably no users.
Does it have any merged PRs? Open PRs? (If no merged PRs then presumably you do not really accept them? No way to know for sure but it's a signal.)
Of course these metrics can be gamed. But if you literally have only one commit, no issues, no PRs, then it's like declaring your restaurant is open for business but all the lights are off, there are no patrons, waiters, cooks, and there is a single to-go box on the table with a small bell next to it. Or it's a museum with only one exhibit and no docents or guests. It's just incredibly odd to see no history for a project.
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