How many companies at the size of Anthropic can serve the amount of traffic and manage the amount of compute they have?

It doesn't matter. Front end code should not misbehave if servers can't keep up. At worst it should fail gracefully.

How many compagnies can manage a mostly stateless workload at "whatever-the-scale-because-it-does-not-matter-because-stateless" ? Lots of people can do that. Massive amount of people can do that.

I think you mean mostly-stateless-but-with-prompt-caching-and-batching, ie not really

The workload is anything besides stateless

HN users are world champions are trivializing difficult things with snarky comments

I mean, it's Anthropic‘s front end, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?

I mean, supposedly software engineering is solved so it's somewhat justified snark.

Never forget - Dropbox!

Let's be honest - they're also still hiring software devs. AI still requires skilled humans in the loop and that's not going away.

But the job itself may not exist in a year, according to the job posting page.

There should be a sign somewhere:

934 days since people first started threatening that devs would be replaced by AI in 365 days. 0 day(s) since Anthropic posted a developer job posting.

Only one of those numbers would need to be dynamic.

In my long and quite happy and successful career in the adjacent field none of the actually good jobs were the posted.

Specialist headhunters handle that.

I'm pretty sure that was a fake screenshot made as a joke, not an actual job posting

Nah, it's real. I very clearly remember going to their site, with TLS enabled, and reading it myself. I see they've scrubbed it now though.

If you have the link for the page handy, I'd be curious to find the original revision on the wayback machine. That's too funny, especially if they've silently walked it back since.

I tried to find it on Wayback but their job page's SPA is broken on all relevant archives (roughly around March 2026). Maybe you'll have better luck.

It is going away for non tech companies though.

Imagine you are a company that sells concrete. You have a web dev contractor you use to build and maintain your website. It has tools on it to get delivery quotes and a few internal tools to track orders.

Except now you can just have your sales team also maintain the website with a $20/month Claude subscription.

They said the same about low code and no code when they appeared. That didn't happen. And it won't happen now too. Sales people, managers etc don't want to dabble in technical things and do not want the responsibility.

I don't know about Claude, but I know that $20 of Copilot doesn't get you very far these days even when you know enough to tell it what to do.

They might try that for a bit but then come crawling to an agency because their setup turned to slop. We have some clients like that already. Going to be a pretty big market.

It's funny how they are at a disadvantage because they feel obligated to AI-max. Would Claude Code, as an interface, be as mediocre if they had software engineers writing its code directly? I doubt. On the other hand - how embarrassing would it be if they sold you a tool to write code but they were careful not to use it too much on their own products?

I suspect many competent devs in the industry would find it sensible if Anthropic used their products as light-touch "assistants" sometimes. But yeah, it wouldn't fit the outside narrative that's formed and conveniently propped up valuations.

This is just like any extreme engineering domain. I am okay with occasional delays in Flights, as long as it takes me from X to Y in 10hrs vs months.

i know the dream for capitalists is to be able to point an llm at something and say "do and/or fix it" but we still can't even get them to not go quite literally insane if allowed to run for an extended period of time

and you can only kill weyoun, awaken the next vorta clone and have him 'catch up' on all that its missed so many times before they just end up with a complete mess, so. uh. yeah.

doubt they can just "fix" their problems like that.

That one DS9 episode where there were two Weyouns at the same time is a good analogy for two agents working on a codebase at the same time (as in they don’t work well together).