[123malware321]

well you might say that, but they got bought, so in making nothing which no one needed they did find their perfect match, anthropic, who also builds nothing and sells hot air :D.

We might have our opinions on AI and slop, but in the end of the day this was a business play and it worked out for the players. Separate that from the actual product and u can respect they did really well for themselves.

[dgellow]

In this case we actually were selling something specific. Customers got SDKs/MCP servers/docs websites + the whole release pipeline automation out of the deal. I don’t see where the claims of hot air come from. The SDKs we produce are used by millions of developers every single day. I mean, we worked really closely with the teams at Cloudflare, Mux, Lithic, Finch, Modern Treasury, Scale, and a lots of others. It’s not like we had just a pitch and only had Anthropic as a close customer.

See https://www.stainless.com/customers/ for an overview