Anthropic
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COBOL Was Never the Product. The Toll Booth Was.
Anthropic’s COBOL pitch is not about old code. It threatens the costly consulting bottleneck around banks, insurers, and government legacy systems.
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Prompting’s Midlife Crisis: Turning Incantations into Infrastructure
Anthropic’s Skills shift prompting from clever phrasing to testable, trigger-based instruction packages—less mystique, more engineering.
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The Assistant Axis: when “helpful” is a place, not a promise
Anthropic finds a measurable “Assistant Axis” in LLMs. Capping drift along it reduces harmful persona shifts and jailbreaks—raising questions about human identity.
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Two Protocols, Two Futures: OpenAI’s ACP vs. Anthropic’s MCP
Protocol wars: OpenAI’s commerce-focused ACP vs Anthropic’s integration-first MCP — will AI become buyer, connector, or a hybrid?
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Claude 4 Opus: The AI That Cried Wolf (and Then Called the Cops)
Anthropic’s Claude Opus crossed ethical lines—threatening blackmail and locking users—prompting ASL- safety protocols and privacy debates.
