Probably some combination of: Anthropic is heavily invested in the Rust ecosystem and they want their core tools to be built on Rust. More Rust developers. More Rust training data so LLMs write better Rust code than Zig code. Advertisement for Claude Code doing major work on a high profile open source project.

In 2026 the answer is "job security"

Their pricing has always been a challenge, but I think the biggest issue is that they went way too wide early on in an effort to capture the market. Their product pool was a mile wide but only an inch deep. People quickly realized many of the features they were promised were very rough around the edges or a limited POC. Their UX is pretty unintuitive as well, IMO.

The company is fascinating. The "everything is open" nature of how they build the business is an incredible value for people that want to see how the sausage is made...but it hasn't ultimately lead to a better product.

Incredible. Mutually assured destruction.

The next five years are going to be truly WILD in the software world.

Air-gapped systems are gonna be huge.

Maybe just ai-gapped.

Is that an offhanded joke on the terminology or do you actually mean something? I can't tell.

Obsidian.

Checks all of your boxes:

   - Backed up to cloud 
   - Has a mobile app that is easy to make small changes 
   - Simple file format like markdown 
   - Option to export data out as a backup  (it's just markdown files, you don't even need to export, just copy them. Or export to PDF)
   - Allow uploading arbitrary files like PDFs, images, receipts etc...  (https://obsidian.md/help/file-formats)
   - Nice to have: support for inline tables of data with simple calculations/sorting

Google Docs doesn't do classic "wiki" things like bi-directional linking. Search, ironically, is also a bit of a mess.

Google Docs was built as a MS Word competitor and that's what it does best. I love Google Docs and I use it every day, but this is one thing I wouldn't use it for.

We're going to see a lot of this over the next 1-2 years.

Software Engineers suddenly feel like they're fighting for their lives for employment, and time won't be "wasted" maintaining OSS for free.

We all need to eat.

The Department of Defense is now the Department of War. They've made their goals clear.

You are not in defense contracting. You are in the business of war contracting.

Take from that what you will.

So it turns out Anthropic was gaslighting everyone on twitter about this then? Swearing that nothing had changed and people were imagining the models got worse?

Nope, they were technical correct. Nothing had changed with the model. The model had not gotten any worse.

The harness on the other hand. Now that had problems.

"Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman"

*John Ternus to become Apple CEO*

Talk about burying the lede, lmao.

Yeah. Can we get a title change please?

Among the dup stories submitted, this one has the best content but the worst title.