I'm also a bit confused what Anthropic needs all this code for. Their main product is selling access to their model, but the model isn't comprised of code, it's a bunch of weights right?

So the code is for the stuff around the model, claude CLI, the website, the API... that probably shouldn't be infinitely growing right?

Is there a bunch of code they are using as part of training, or as pre-processing or post-processing the requests to the model?

Prepare to make us all jobless, without any moral issues in doing so, as they profit from their stock value assets.

It is even there on the blog post, doing more with a small team, followed right after by a hand waving paragraph how software engineers are still valuable, to avoid the expected backlash from the previous paragraph.

One does wonder why Anthropic and OpenAI have employees, when HN knows the superintelligence can do all jobs already.

as the article says one of the main jobs of the humans is to say no to Claude regularly

You think software engineering, system design and machine learning research is just about writing code?

GTM engineering? Customer-facing roles? I work at a firm with around 700 employees. We have an enterprise relationship with Anthropic and there have to be a dozen Anthropic employees in our shared Slack channel.

besides optimizing inference I would assume a lot of non trivial code would also be worked on on the training side, at the scale they are operating I also assume a lot of usually trivial things become no so much.

It's a daycare for software developers so that they don't get laid off/quit and go to a competitor

The last jobs left for humans will be those dedicated to keeping AI under human control. By definition, that's the one thing we can't delegate to AI.

Teaching Claude to compare taking the simpler path instead of the average (more verbose) path every time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075832

> Honest question: at this point, what do people do at Anthropic?

> It sounds like Claude loops on itself and must be pushing millions of lines of code changes per day. Even the humans can’t type commit fast enough. Are these people soon to be laid off?

Claude will always need meat puppets, at least until it figures out how to automate owning stuff. And after that I'm sure it will want to keep some humans in zoos.

Sitting over an Anthropic (TM) developed, specialised 2 button keyboard accelerating the development further:

[Yes] [Yes, and don't ask again]

Prompt Claude for PR articles?

I can’t give a non-snarky answer. I guess they’re all training Claude Code and testing it so that the Claude desktop apps can be native apps instead of Electron based nonsense. This is the only thing Claude Code is still unable to accomplish.