Tweet by thdxr

July 2, 2025

anthropic is at risk of making a big mistake it's something we've seen too many times before imagine having the crazy goal of building a platform - something thousands of companies and products are built on top of you realize just building the platform isn't enough, so you start to build tools that make it easier to use the platform and demonstrate its capabilities these tools get their own names and identities and teams working on them and very quickly these teams forget they only exist to drive people onto the platform and then one day someone external makes a tool that accomplishes that goal and does it even better it should be a moment of success - this is the original dream, to see great things built for your platform but structurally these teams have long forgotten that so it's a moment of competition. in the worst cases they even try to squash it we've experienced this building SST and how some teams at AWS saw our work as competitive even as we were driving dollars to AWS and tapping into a market they could never reach there are exceptions - cloudflare has invested resources in helping us even though they have wrangler, somehow their teams are setup in a way to not see us as a threat but it's a real test - we'll soon be able to see if anthropic as an org is really aligned with becoming a platform or if they fall into this same trap

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thdxr
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July 2, 2025
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