Comment by pizlonator
Comment by pizlonator a day ago
It seems that Anthropic's thesis is that vertical integration wins.
It's too soon to tell if that's true or not.
One of the features of vertical integration is that there will be folks complaining about it. Like the way folks would complain that it's impossible or hard to install macOS on anything other than a Mac, and impossible or hard to install anything other than macOS on a Mac. Yet, despite those complains, the Mac and macOS are successful. So: the fact that folks are complaining about Anthropic's vertical integration play does not mean that it won't be successful for them. It also doesn't mean that they are clueless
The models are pretty much the same, the differentiation for the last few months have purely been in the tooling and harness around the models.
As it will continue to be. Unless we get a Opus-5 or GPT-6 that blows everything out of the water, all major progress will be in the UX/DX of the tools and what tools each harness will let the agent use and how.
For now Claude is the best at this, MS is trying to keep up with Copilot in VSCode and Codex ... exists.