It's surviving *for now*. This pace isn't sustainable, they know it, but they need to pretend until the IPO. That's when they'll start worrying about quality. The pace of feature creation is going to decrease the moment they float.
From the little I know from my interactions with their staff, it’s something Anthropic sees as critical. They are well aware their API isn’t reliable and that it is and will cause troubles
Not germane to me whether it holds them back or not, I don't even use their products anymore. I'm just taking the piss, having a cheeky laugh at the expense of the company who brought us such breathless prose as "it’s a bit like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea" and "we are releasing a model that is too powerful for the public".
Like okay Jan lmao, seems like the North Koreans take their uptime a little more seriously than the nuclear weapons developers at Anthropic.