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Anthropic's run on the model and product side of things is highly impressive. They got Sam A. punching the air consistently, which is well-deserved and self-inflicted above all.

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Wdym? They've been knocking it out of the park on marketing, but Claude Code is still a meme, and Opus is getting trashed by GPT5.5 meanwhile you can't even use their "dominant" model, and anecdotal reports from when people could use Fable, when they weren't getting silently poisoned, was that it was only marginally better than GPT 5.5 in terms of SWE smarts, mostly being better in terms of pleasantness to interact with and design taste.

> Claude Code is still a meme

Claude Code generates more revenue than OpenAI...It appears to be a nice meme.

Like I said, Anthropic's marketing is killing it, they've got people freely(?) shilling for them on public forums so even if they have shit developer relations and community relations and a model that's mostly worse while being more expensive, they can ride a wave of misinformation.

> they have shit developer relations

Not true

> model that's mostly worse while being more expensive

Not true

> they can ride a wave of misinformation.

Not true

Look at the way that Anthropic has legally threatened people who do stuff they don't like around Claude Code and their subs, and compare that to how OpenAI has acted. Look at how mixed up and unstable their communication is on policies is relative to OpenAI. Don't take my word for it, Theo/Primeagen have a whole back catalog outlining how shitty Anthropic is.

Look at the cost per intelligence of Opus vs GPT 5.5.

Anthropic is the Taylor Swift of frontier labs... Not bad, but massively, MASSIVELY stan'd for inexplicable reasons, in violation with reality.

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