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by afavour 10 days ago
I wouldn’t use language as strong as OPs but it is against the spirit of FOSS for a corporate owner to use a private prerelease version of their open source software.

I think it’s valid to object to. If 1.4 is good enough to be used by Claude, why not us?

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So you wouldn't, for example, after doing a complete ground-up rewrite, perhaps spend a few months dogfooding it to work out the worst bugs before unleashing it upon the public, thus maximizing your initial velocity by minimizing the blast radius and support requests and triage during this phase?
It's Anthropic. I am pretty sure they spent time dogfooding it to Mythos or an even more advanced model.

That might even be the reason why they switched to rust.

Don't worry too much.

> before unleashing it upon the public

…but they have? Claude users are public, no? If they were dogfooding internally I’d agree with you.

Yeah. One single project that they control. Not thousands of other people's projects breaking, I'm sure with a ton of HN outcry over releasing "this pile of vibe coded slop" upon the poor populace.

You just can't win.

> you just can’t win

You could! You could not release a “pile of vibe coded slop” onto people’s machines. There don’t even appear to be any particular advantages to Claude upgrading early. If there are no one has been made aware of it.

The irony. A company building models and tooling to automatically produce code being attacked for using automatically produced code in the very tools that allow people to automatically produce code, presumably by somebody who wants to use their tools to automatically produce code, possibly because they believe that their approach at ensuring that automatically produced code is properly reviewed by a responsible human has to be more thorough than whatever that company does because of course they were going too fast and thus it can't be good
How do you know it's vibe coded slop? Have you seen the source code?
> How do you know it's vibe coded slop? Have you seen the source code?

I believe you've just made your opponent's point for them.