스티브예거, The Anthropic Hive Mind

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스티브 예거(Steve Yegge)

구글, 아마존 등 글로벌 IT 대기업에서 근무한 경력이 있는 저명한 소프트웨어 엔지니어이자, 기술 블로거

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The Anthropic Hive Mind https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b

The Anthropic Hive Mind

AI가 휩쓸고 있는 앤트로픽한 상황.
May the best… whatever… win.

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As you’ve probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off.
This whole post is just spidey-sense stuff. Don’t read too much into it. Just hunches. Vibes, really.

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Happy But Sad
To get a proper picture of Anthropic at this moment, you have to be Claude Monet, and paint it impressionistically, a big broad stroke at a time. Each section in this post is a stroke, and this one is all about the mood.


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The Vibe Mind
Everyone you talk to from Anthropic will eventually mention the chaos. It is not run like any other company of this size. Every other company quickly becomes “professional” and compartmentalized and accountable and grown-up and whatnot at their size. I don’t think Anthropic has bothered with any of that crap yet.
I mean sure, yes, for their production systems, they are of course very serious and appropriately frowny-faced and have lots of world-class SREs and scaling engineers. Buuuut, you know. The tail that wags their dog is Claude in its various incarnations, and that’s the Work Generator that keeps the hive buzzingly happily along.
So when I generalize and say Anthropic is completely run by vibes, I’m sure there are exceptions at the periphery, where it makes sense to have hardened interfaces with the rest of the world, whether it’s production, or GTM, or product marketing. And the company is probably a bit more “normal” at those edges.
But at the core, they are self-evidently in the middle (or maybe beginning) of a Golden Age, which I’ll talk about in the next section. And it’s very churny and frothy there.






So now you see how the magic starts and ends. During Golden Ages, there is more work than people. And when they crash, it is because there are more people than work.
I realize I’m mixing units, but otherwise it gets grammatically awkward. You get the idea.



Someone there told me that Claude Cowork was launched publicly 10 days after they first had the idea. When magic happens there, it happens very fast.
They are generating luck, exactly what Eric Schmidt had wanted. But they are doing it much, much faster than Googlers could, because they are all 10x to 100x as productive as engineers who are using Cursor and chat today, and roughly 1000x as productive as Googlers were back in 2005. (And in 2005 we were honestly pretty badass compared to programming back in 1986 when I started; it has been nice gradually turning into a wizard over the last 40 years.)



You have a lot of work ahead of you. Build the campfire. Turn your product into a living prototype. Consider building some hives within your company, and giving them space to innovate.
And then pivot like hell to your new PMF, whatever that may be. Good luck. It’s gonna be a crazy year. May the best… whatever… win.