All the devs saying that Anthropic’s code quality is “normal” are telling on themselves and everybody they’ve worked with

(Also supports what many have been saying about software quality being a crisis that precedes LLMs, but that’s another story)

@baldur Is it possible your opinion about their internal code quality just isn't the constraint that you think it is? After all it's only the scaffolding around the LLM that does the actual work.

Interesting article on them from a couple of weeks ago telling their basing on $21bn of Google's TPUs (which run Gemini for Google) going forward rather than GPUs.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/02/13/anthropic-the-380-billion-powerhouse-hiding-in-plain-sight/

Anthropic: The $380 Billion Powerhouse Hiding In Plain Sight

Anthropic hit $14B revenue run rate with 10x annual growth—500 enterprise clients prove this $380B valuation is real.

Forbes
@hopeless @baldur Stop shilling.

@jmax @baldur ... for the record I don't have any investments in tech companies.

I'm sorry if it hurts your feelings that Anthropic have a lot of money (for now anyway) and are giving some of it to Google for their TPUs so they can run more AI.

But that seems to be the reality...

@hopeless @baldur Stop shilling for con artists.

@jmax @baldur

... sorry, I try not to talk to people who are hard of understanding.

@hopeless No investments, but resorts to emotional responses and ad hominem.

Also your article also says nothing in regards to code quality but I suspect that's not why you posted it.

Please meditate on this, and don't ask claude or grok or whatever to do your meditation for you.

@wydamn I'm sorry, are you referring to the now blocked person who wanted to call me a "shill", twice?

That's an "emotional response", right? And an "ad hominem" too.

So why are you wagging your finger at me and not the guy trying to bully me?

The article is shows you don't need power-hungry GPUs to run inference, and that if Anthropic didn't have staff to go to the bank for them, they still wouldn't cry all the way to the bank over what a guy on Mastodon says about their code quality...

@hopeless But you were shilling though, and you still are.

When you post a forbes propaganda article about money people making money and how that is a good thing and ignores the technical argument: that is shilling.

You say you are not invested, but if somebody "wagging their finger" at you makes you feel bad, then guess what: You Are Invested.

@wydamn I see... well, let me share a metric I like to use when deciding who to block... "is this person ever going to say anything worth listening to?".

If the answer seems to be "no", then on to the block list they go. You're very welcome to use the same logic on me, I won't be able to tell the difference since you'll already be blocked.

@wydamn @hopeless Indeed, their entire timeline is shilling for "AI".