Anthropic appears to be slow anymore

There is no reason for it to be slow in the first place? I dunno. On the other end of the American Century (80 years but we can round up). It's still surprising to me that countries legit tried to negociate a trade deal with the rest of us suffer as a result because we couldn't afford $5000 dev laptops as daily drivers.

So much work is being done in the background.

Sure there is. Nobody cares about quality, mvp and get to market first is what counts. AI means there is more reason for software to be slow in the first decade of life. Tariffs are a tax on foreign exploitation and supply chain insecurity. We need to bring that exploitation back onshore. Cheap bullshit is of no benefit if you don't have a grip on performance. The interesting context: 1) this has nothing to do with LLMs 2) this is a superpower. In the hands of a skilled engineer who understands the project, this is a non-issue in Linux. There was 13th lab, acquired by oculus years ago. Wouldn't surprise me if there are a bunch of myths to an existing code base, in a way that is compatible with the application.

There is no reason for it to be slow in the first decade of life.