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i think “get on board or get left behind” phrasing is ugly, but anthropic’s run rate went from 9 billion in december 2025 to 19 billion in march 2026. claude code has 40% margins. i rarely write code by hand these days, and there’s a ridiculous amount of low hanging fruit remaining in claude.

Eric Ravenscraft@lordravenscraft.bsky.social

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

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Whether Claude wrote it matters less than whether the contributor can explain the tradeoffs. We run agents that write most of our code — useful output comes with rationale and tests. 'The model suggested this' with no context is a red flag regardless of authorship.

these models got scary good in last 5 months. i see no reason why improvements won’t keep coming, nor why would they wouldn’t get better in other fields.

I keep hearing online from people who I suspect are better engineers than me this same line, but my experience in 2026 has been a dramatic increase in the number of PRs I have to review, and a precipitous decline in their quality. I'm unconvinced the quality of the model improving fixes that.

my take is that i wouldn’t accept pull requests from people i don’t know. if some random person, new to my codebase, is using claude to write code, what do i need them for? why should *they* feed *my* instructions into an LLM when I could do it myself?

that's totally fair. these PRs are at work. it's more complicated than repeatedly hitting "request changes". my workplace has insane enthusiasm for these tools and for as much as I dont want to be dramatic or come off like I'm accusing anyone in your replies, they are kind of ruining my life.

like, yeah, my perspective is a bit curmudgeonly, but fundamentally, open source is a way to get labor from people for free. maybe people are motivated by altruism, but their motivations are immaterial to my goals of accepting PRs.