>Or they do understand and that's why they focus on consulting now.

Cohere would like a word here

They already have a consulting partnership with KPMG as part of a Strategic Alliance

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-kpmg

> CodePath, an Anthropic nonprofit partner and America’s largest provider of collegiate computer science education, will act as the fellows’ official employer of record and lead programming during the fellowship.

So your job is to be an FDE to sell Claude into non-profits.... but without ever actually working for Anthropic.

That’s how it sounds

Why everything they do sounds shady?

I'm not saying it's shady.

> So your job is to be an FDE to sell Claude into non-profits....

Being forward deployed engineer is to work with a particular business helping them out with the solution that your tech company du jour makes.

> but without ever actually working for Anthropic.

I didn't really get the impression that they work for Anthropic as it is a 12 month thing and then it's done. So you're not seen as something long-term, nor do you get one of those juicy tech salaries (which I'd assume is something that Anthropic pays if they see you as a long-term fit).

Whether you find that shady is up to you. I didn't even think that far ahead mate.

Probably because it is shady?

The contractor game has been played in Silicon Valley since basically there's been a valley.

Cursor is doing that (i think with Fireworks as their provider)

https://cursor.com/blog/real-time-rl-for-composer

Use your ClaudeCode sub and tell it to set it up for you

why 27b vs 35b? Is MoE that much worse for coding?

Yeah MoE is a little worse for the same size, but you can often run bigger MoEs at respectable speeds even on cpu ram offload. The dense models really need to be 100% vram

Can take the geometric mean of total and active parameters of MoE to get approximate equivalent quality to dense model params. So sqrt(35*10)≈18.7.

The trade-off of MoE is that it is worse but faster for the same total size.

Salesforce made 37.9 billion in 2025 of revenue. 6.2 billion in net income (or profits)

They give out the subscription by default, and if they find your use case interesting enough they'll give you credits. Not sure if there's an upper limit, but I would be surprised if it's more than a few hundred dollars a month.

(no internal knowledge, this is based on my experience with explainshell.com, thanks OAI!)

Is there a way to sign up without going through google oauth?

Not at the moment but it's in the queue. If there's a sign up method that works better for you feel free to DM me.

>At the same time, Opus seems to understand my intent way better than e.g. deepseek. I need to be much more precise with my prompts when using deepseek - it often goes in a wrong direction if I'm lazy. This results in a workflow which feels quite a lot different from Claude Code.

how much of that is Opus injecting prior conversations from memory?

Almost none of it, if you're using Claude Code. Until recently Claude only had the option of retaining memory across conversations for the desktop app.

I almost never use the desktop app, I have maybe 2-3 conversations over the last year that have nothing to do with my job. Opus (and now Fable) genuinely do seem to "understand" what you intend based off what you're explaining a lot better than other models I've tried.

Gemini gets close in some cases, but it falls over in the actual implementation sometimes. I haven't tried Kimi yet but MiMo isn't too shabby either.

I'm using Claude code + (a patched) litellm proxy + openrouter + Qwen 3.7 max/kimi k2.6/deepseek v4 pro. The only feature that doesn't work is webfetch and web search, which I've replaced with the ddg MCP. Memory, caching, and everything else works fine.

Qwen comes close to opus for planning but fable is clearly superior. Kimi and deepseek are pretty much indistinguishable from opus for coding if opus writes the plan.

I'm now testing out fable for research and planning and deepseek v4 flash for coding. I'm guessing results will be pretty similar to opus + deepseek v4 pro and costs should be lower overall.