https://non-functional.net/tags/anthropic/Recent content in Anthropic on Non-Functional BlogHugoenTue, 21 Apr 2026 16:23:42 +0100https://non-functional.net/posts/2026-04-21-the-revenge-of-k-shaped-engineering/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:23:42 +0100https://non-functional.net/posts/2026-04-21-the-revenge-of-k-shaped-engineering/<p>The incomparable <a href="https://ethanding.substack.com/p/claude-code-is-not-making-your-product" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Ethan Ding on the disjunction</a> that most of us are feeling right now. Claude speeds up certain things - quite a lot - but it also slows us down. We need to have a more accurate model of what&rsquo;s happening to software, and this is an accessible primer on one possible scenario.</p> <p>(I also loved <a href="https://ethanding.substack.com/p/levered-beta-is-all-you-need" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">his piece on levered beta</a>, which I think played out essentially as he wrote.)</p>https://non-functional.net/posts/2026-04-20-opus-4-7-model-card-and-zvi/Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:56:03 +0100https://non-functional.net/posts/2026-04-20-opus-4-7-model-card-and-zvi/<p>I strongly suspect that Zvi doesn&rsquo;t need more inbound links, but his latest <a href="https://thezvi.substack.com/p/opus-47-part-1-the-model-card" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">model card assessment</a> (which is, as usual, very well written) has a couple of notable quotes:</p> <blockquote> <p>So yeah, none of that sounds great. It all sounds like the types of thing that, if you caught a human doing them even once, that would be a very bad sign, and in several cases you would obviously have to fire them.</p> </blockquote> <p>Check out the examples of Mythos Preview attempting (and in some cases succeeding, only to be caught by the human at the last moment) to escape containment.</p>