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This was said recently lolol
https://x.com/bcherny/status/2090649326032945591
Bedrock has been fine throughout today; just pick two providers and you have much more stable Claude :)
Also, sometimes older models work fine, Opus 4.8/4.6/4.5 are worth trying.
If you are a solo developer who has the patience to tinker endlessly, this advice is probably fine.
If you are responsible for provisioning AI services in a team setting, this advice starts to fall apart rapidly. OAI and Anthropic might as well be oil and water when it comes to what tools and descriptions are most ideal.
Swapping the inference provider like it's some interchangeable module is a total fantasy in most real world settings.
> Also, sometimes older models work fine
> sometimes
My users are hoping for slightly more definitive results. "Usually" or even "often" would be much preferred.
I'm not saying that works in every business or billing scenario, though.
Then it seems they forgot about their own infrastructure which goes down once every two weeks.
Looks like most of all the engineering knowledge that was needed at Google was lost after the whole org at Anthropic is now vibing their work.
Rather than screaming “coding is solved!”, “AGI with a month” and spooking everyone with the bogus mysticism of “Mythos” which now everyone has an equivalent strong cyber model, maybe keep the lights on first before plotting the next doomsday story.
Sorry, what does Google have to do with Anthropic's outage?
Being charitable to Anthropic though: coding is sort of solved for a very limited definition of “solved”.
Software engineering of huge distributed systems at massive scale is very much not solved, and it seems Anthropic don’t have the human capital to do it particularly well
It's not just the enormous rate of growth, LLMs and workflows are also evolving rapidly.
Whatever they planned for 1-2 years ago in terms of how they expected their stack to be used is probably already well out of date, so they'll be rearchitecting bits of a production system while it's being used
I really want to support Anthropic because of their commitments to effective altruism, but it's getting harder and harder to justify on technical merits. Sol is just faster, cheaper, and more reliable, and as good as Opus for my use cases
If you're really committed to the ideas of EA, shouldn't you dispassionately select whatever model works best for you, then make as much money as possible using that and donate it? :)
They are doing the opposite while saying the other. Zero trust about that. They are using every malicious playbook tactic these days to increase users and be more profitable and lock-in the users. Even OpenAI feels better these days.
That's a downside if anything.
I think you mistook their declamations for commitments.
Having your infrastructure at the knife's edge of load to capacity also means you have no redundancy when something fails.