Sometimes you get there by accident. You make a thing, it grows or is used in unexpected ways, now suddenly performance matters.
Sometimes Python is just the language used in the domain. Lots of sciences live on Python because it is easy to teach to grad students and the package ecosystem is strong.
Read this as: "we get discounts, rate limit increases, a direct line to responsible product managers; in exchange we participate in friendly marketing." It's extremely common in this line of business - typical of database vendors, software tool companies, etc.
In many countries it is mandatory to mark any form of compensated advertising as such. If your claim is true they might be breaking some laws here & there…
I'll wear the dunce cap: how are you so certain this is co-marketing? I'm not saying you are wrong, but it doesn't seem obviously like marketing copy to me (which is of course what they'd want but that's nevertheless not in any way evidence one way or the other).
It starts with the words "As part of our continued collaboration with Anthropic"
Once these words are used you can assume there is a contract stating how that collaboration works, and that this includes some sentences about how much each side is allowed to or required to say about it
So you claim that Mozilla entered into a contract with Anthropic, and said contract requires Mozilla to advertise for Anthropic on their blog. I hope Mozilla is getting a good payday out of this.
No, but they go on strike when negotiating their collective contracts, and put terms in the contract that govern how failures like this are investigated and punished.
Apologies if I misread/misinterpreted you, but police can't (generally) strike in the USA. Most states have a specific laws against police and firefighters from going on strike. Federal law enforcement cannot strike
It's not legal, that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
See "Blue flu" for cases where cops coordinate a strike using sick leave. Another way they strike is by simply not doing their job. They'll just sit in their cars all day and won't respond or will severely delay response to dispatch.
AFAIK, those cops never get a ATF style house cleaning.
> A correction was made on May 6, 2026: An earlier version of this article misstated the country where Guy Goma grew up. He is from the Republic of Congo, not the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Right guy, wrong Congo! You can't even make this stuff up.
I worked in scheduling and timekeeping industry for a little bit, when pen and paper is mentioned you think "oh it's just notes written, and some other things" but in reality it's literally whole departments storing everything in daily/weekly sheets/binders and it's like 20 people's job to keep it all in order and keep the ship running for next week.
When someone asks what the plan is for next week, the answer is normally, it needs to be written out, or I'll have to find this for you etc.
Yeah, my first job at a startup was at an oil and gas saas that ingested unstructured data into a standardized db for smaller operators.*
"How much money did we make yesterday?" was a nontrivial question that required a several people a couple of days to compile manually before our software.
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* Would probably make a killing today; this was over a decade ago and the extraction was 98% regex and custom if statements
That's a pretty interesting idea! I guess 160+ is sort of doing some of that for us - it compiles to SQL WHERE clauses, right - but generally, we found good results giving it a SQL dialect directly.
I think some of the reason is that there's so much coverage of writing SQL in its training set.
Yes! This works really well from Sonnet 4.5 onwards, in our experience. Sonnet 4.0 was a little rocky - we had to give it tons of documentation - but by now it works without much effort.
One thing that works very well is just giving it one or two example valid programs/statements in the custom language. It usually picks up what you're getting at very quickly.
When it slips up, you get good signal you can capture for improving the language. If you're doing things in a standard agent-y loop, a good error message also helps it course-correct.
That’s really interesting. The “one or two examples + good error messages” part feels especially important. It suggests the limiting factor may be less finetuning and more whether the model is given a tight representation and a feedback loop it can recover from.
Sometimes Python is just the language used in the domain. Lots of sciences live on Python because it is easy to teach to grad students and the package ecosystem is strong.
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