My guess is SRE culture is a tough sell at Anthropic. When you’re a frontier lab, almost everything else looks more prestigious and more immediately “impactful”.
Flatbuffers are fine - I think it is used in many places that needs zero-copy. Also outside google, it powers the Arrow format which is the foundation of modern analytics
Absolutely. LLM inference is still a greenfield — things like overlap scheduling and JIT CUDA kernels are very recent. We’re just getting started optimizing for modern LLM architectures, so cost/perf will keep improving fast.
From an enterprise adoption standpoint, remote MCP addresses the connector problem and can be easily retrofitted into enterprise-wide gateway services. In contrast, building tools is significantly more expensive for enterprises with large, existing API surfaces.
Most of the concerns can be addressed by a gateway service
But why the effort if a description (like OpenAPI spec) of your existing API is completely sufficient for using the API? A new and separate MCP service will introduce new and separate issues where the OpenAPI spec helps you strengthening your existing API.
Zero-COVID was an absolute disaster. It involved severe human rights violations and caused immense social and economic damage, including unnecessary displacement, homelessness, and even deaths. The number is lower sure, but China had the capacity to do much better
China's statistics on COVID deaths are entirely unreliable. In reality, in all likelihood China was the least successful in its region of East-Asia, less successful than Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
Note that I'm not including the large-scale suffering caused by the way it was executed besides deaths - if you include that, it's beyond any doubt they did worse than the countries mentioned above, and it's not even close.
Most successful if you pick the reasonable excess death estimate, i.e. not PRC official stats that only counts respiratory failure, or mainstream western excess death estimate extrapolated from applying obese murican fatality rates. TLDR typical using east asian health profile, PRC excess death rate per 100k like 40-80% lower than JP/SRK/TW, ~20-60 per 100k vs ~100-150. It's not even close. TBH would have been a sweep if PRC actually went full authoritarian and mandated full vax dose, but TFW even PRC respects body autonomy more than west. PRC chose body autonomy over freedom of movement and just so happens to be very good at maintaining freedom of movement, i.e. 3 years of normal life in exchange for like 4-8 weeks of lockdown, with plurality of cities barely experiencing any. Unless one insists PRC aktually has 40% obesity rate or Chinese aren't east Asian, then it's beyond doubt PRC did best globally, while top performers in east asia not even in PRC league.
many people especially those with chronic illnesses died because Zero-COVID blocked access to basic medical care and food. Those deaths were policy-driven and avoidable.
I don’t blame the dev teams who ended up creating mini-frameworks. In many big tech companies, central framework teams are chronically underfunded. What I do blame are ego-driven mini-frameworks built by senior principal+ engineers that don’t actually solve real problems.
China has been a developing country for most the time of the past 25 years. It is indeed a huge problem if it is still rising rapidly. But it is also not fair to limit China’s per capita growth for most of the past two decades
reply