[lysace]

The models aside, my impression is that Anthropic is winning in large part because of very pragmatic and high-velocity product development on top of them; like with Claude Code.

Like actually iterating hard to make them useful. Many, many details matter here.

I haven't tested the similar OpenAI/Google tools in detail lately though. Previously I found them way too generic and unpolished to be useful.

Is there something to this?

[wongarsu]

My impression as well. OpenAI was riding the high of ChatGPT with a very confusing and seemingly unfocused offering beyond that. Anthropic was always laser focused on business use cases. Claude Code being the big one. Finance seems to be their next target.

Anthropic has much narrower capabilities. No image generation, no video generation, no 3d world models, barely any voice stuff. But they know who their target customers are, and their API has a model selection anyone can understand and pricing that rarely changes. Focus and predictably

[nzoschke]

My impression too.

Claude Desktop, Cowork, Code, Design all get meaningful new features week over week.

I can’t recall another vendor with such focus and velocity.

Google products are evolving at a glacial pace. OpenAI isn’t as focused on what knowledge workers need.

[lysace]

Velocity: The closest is perhaps NCSA Mosaic/Netscape in 1993-1995. It's exhilarating to follow.

Both Google and OpenAI appear to be stuck in some abstract strategy where they keep shipping new demos instead of iterating on actual products.

[datakan]

I recently canceled my Claude subscription. The token costs are outrageous. I maxed my 5 hour limit with a single request. If they fix that I'll reconsider but as things sit today Claude is a pig that's just not worth the cost.