Anthropic acquires Stainless

tomeraberbach

Stainless blog post: https://www.stainless.com/blog/stainless-is-joining-anthropi...

pixel_popping

Anthropic, it would be nice to actually put a link to the website.

phildougherty

Whats the connection that got them the early in with anthropic?

rvz

I am going to assume that anything Anthropic acquires is going to be eventually used against you.

asim

Good for them. We built similar tooling at that time, but backed by our own APIs. It's something that has a lot of value, that standardisation needs to exist, but it also makes a lot of sense to fold the team into a company like Anthropic that is so developer centric. Good luck to the team there.

pplante

I feel like we are seeing agentic coding tools morph into walled gardens with these acquisitions. Anthropic has restricted claude code usage while OpenAI has sort of let Codex fill the void. I am curious to see how this continues to evolve.

tehalex

OpenAI uses stainless for at least some of their SDKs.

rcarmo

This feels like the Apple playbook, but for software tooling--they are becoming vertically integrated.

drewda

> As we focus on Claude Platform capabilities and connecting agents to APIs, we’ll be winding down all hosted Stainless products, including our SDK generator. Starting today, new signups, projects, and SDKs will not be available. For better or worse, it's an acquihire.

dalbaugh

I'm really disappointed that such a great service is getting taken off the market. Happy for their team, but sad for the ecosystem. This has to be somewhat anti-competitive. Why else sunset the SDK generator service but to hurt any other company (OpenAI, etc) who relies on these for their SDKs?

blazing234

looks like just an excuse to spend capital

dgellow

Just want to take this moment to say thank you to all the customers I had the opportunity to interact with during my time at Stainless as I expect lots of them are likely to be active in this thread. It has been an honor to work with you all and none of what happened over the past 4 years would have been possible without your trust and support

jypepin

I worked with Alex (founder of stainless) at Stripe and he's awesome. Happy for him and well deserved. Congrats Alex! :)

ezekg

Now if only we had a service that could generate OpenAPI specs automatically...

jonplackett

Are they buying these for the tech, the people or to prevent supply chain hacks?

kristjansson

Some clarity about existing users/SDKs would go a long way. Otherwise this reads like "we just bought OpenAI's front door and we're EOLing it. Hopefully no one was planning to use it in the future". Petty and pointless.

dzonga

if u can't replace the tools, then acquire the tool makers & shut down the tools.

applfanboysbgon

I had never heard of Stainless, but it is deeply concerning that Anthropic are able to use monopoly money to kill software at their whim. First Bun, and now this. It's one thing for a corporation to do it with their own money, because at some point the board will ask them why they're wasting money. But Anthropic isn't even profitable. They're doing this with billions of dollars of borrowed money. Same thing with OpenAI committing to purchasing an unholy amount of RAM supply and directly causing the 5x price jump, with money they don't have. I don't understand how investors continue to fund this nonsense. Anthropic wasting money on this should be an overwhelmingly strong signal that the AGI hype is blatant fraud and that software engineers are clearly not being replaced by Anthropic's software if they have to buy more engineers for some tertiary, fifth-order concern so far removed from their main line of business. Yet they just keep getting more and more money dumped on them.

n3storm

Wait Stainless is not a Rust company???

deaton

This makes sense, since their business model is built on Steeling everyone's data and feeding it to a monster.