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If only Anthropic had some kind of automated tool that was good at porting software

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Even if you can create infinite software you still have to be very intentional about what you’re choosing to work on.

There’s still a cost to testing, support, planning, etc even if coding is now “free”

If only Anthropic had some kind of automated testing, support, planning machine.

You wouldn't run an engineering company with 500 engineers reporting directly to the CEO.

AI doesn't solve this. You need humans who can understand and verify what is being made.

Not, according to their AI influencers

Their whole value proposition is based on the fact that you no longer do.

> You wouldn't run an engineering company with 500 engineers reporting directly to the CEO.

Jack Dorsey wants to prove you wrong!

And there's nothing wrong with that! I doubt they'll succeed with the current generation of tools, though.

Anthropic claims 8-fold productivity increase since 2025. If even that isn't enough to enable support for Linux, I don't know what it is.

I didn't say that they _couldn't_, but it clearly isn't a priority for them. They still have the same opportunity cost any other engineering team faces.

They can work on feature X or feature Y -- which is the better choice?

Apparently they don't think Linux support is significant. I doubt the lack of support is due to technical constraints.

They explicitly did not claim this in the blog post

You forgot the *allegedly in there.

It doesn't sound like that's the bottleneck.

It's getting exponentially better, and everything is getting cheaper, and it's the end of SaaS!

But I am still waiting. If everything was as the hype folks said it was, we would all be fucked already.

Imagine if cutting edge AI companies could decide to using their world best AI to

1) Develop software for linux

2) Provide decent support

If there were any truth to the marketing stories that say they have such a thing, then they could indeed.

It’s almost as if this whole productivity increase promised by AI is just marketing spiel, huh? Crazy.

Still not enough to establish the year of Linux on the desktop.

Sorry that's not the use case anymore its about (checks notes) "forward deployed engineers", yep that's it. Go build!

TBH I don't get the narrative there either. Earlier it was about how regular people can now build many types of software for themselves (and btw, I agree with this), but somehow the narrative has shifted to something like "regular software engineers would work with the customer to develop applications", which makes a lot less sense.

Use the existing Slop they have that needs 1GB of Ram for a simple Terminal app to create an even more slopped Linux app... If only they had any devs at their 500K and way up pay package that could actually write a simple app, that you know does not suck.

You’re asking too much.

Those highly paid human devs are hard at work on the Torment Nexus, which is their priority of course, you don't want China to win do you?

Torment doomers claim that the commodification of humanity’s suffering will usher in a dark age, but quarterly earnings have never been higher. I trust that Death Star Inc has humanity’s best interests at heart.

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