Second-largest private funding round in history, behind only OpenAI. And that valuation now puts Anthropic ahead of OpenAI as the most valuable AI company in the world, public or private. Quick caveat before I get into it. I'm not a finance guy and I've got no inside line on Anthropic. This is me thinking out loud. Here's what I see happening. Most companies raise pre-seed, seed, then a Series A through D. After that they IPO, get acquired, or run out of road. Anthropic just hit Series H. That on its own doesn't tell you much. Stripe and SpaceX stayed private for years on purpose to dodge public-market scrutiny. Slack and Lyft hit Series H and IPO'd inside a year. Everyone takes a different path. What it does tell you is that Anthropic chose to stay private through eight rounds. Bloomberg reckons an IPO could land as soon as October. Their annual revenue went from $1 billion in December 2024 to $47 billion this month, widely called the fastest revenue ramp of any software company ever. They're now running higher revenue than OpenAI, and the latest projections have them hitting profitability first. I'm not saying anyone's "winning" here, both are still burning billions a year. But the underdog framing for Anthropic is getting harder to defend. The thing I keep coming back to is why a company growing this fast still needs another $65 billion. It comes down to compute. Dario, their CEO, said it himself a few weeks back. They planned for 10x growth in 2026. They got 80x. They genuinely cannot build datacenters fast enough. Earlier this month they leased the entire Colossus 1 datacenter in Memphis from SpaceX. 300 megawatts, over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, $1.25 billion a month. They didn't pick SpaceX over Amazon or Google for any clever reason. Colossus was the only compute available right now. The rest doesn't come online until 2027. This round also brought chip makers Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron on as investors. Those three make the high-bandwidth memory that sits on every Nvidia GPU. Getting them invested locks in supply at the single most constrained part of the chip stack.

You run /code-review --fix and it applies the changes straight to your working tree. No copy-paste, no "accept this suggestion" loop. It just does it. This saves real time. It's also where a lot of people are about to get burned. Because the job has quietly changed. A year ago you were writing the code. Now you're reviewing it. And the better these tools get, the more tempting it is to stop reviewing and just accept whatever lands. That's the actual risk. Not that the AI is wrong. It's that you stop checking whether it's wrong. There's a line I keep coming back to: you can outsource your thinking, but you can never outsource your understanding. When your name is on the commit, you take the credit when it ships clean. You also own it when it breaks at 2am. So here's the filter I use with any auto-fix, code or content: If it's low stakes and reversible, let it run. Formatting, a rename, a test stub. Who cares. If it touches logic, money, or anything a user sees, it drafts and I review. Every time. The auto-fix gets me to a reviewable diff faster. It doesn't get me out of reading the diff. That's the whole game now. Reading better, not shipping blind. Try it this week. Next time you accept an AI change without reading it, stop and ask whether you actually understand what changed. If you can't explain it, you don't own it yet. What's one thing you let AI run fully hands-off, and one thing you'll never stop reviewing? Curious where people draw the line.

Most Claude Code skills on YouTube are built for a YouTube clip. These are the five I actually keep installed when work is going out to a paying client. Here they are in install order so they stack: 1. Skill Creator → /plugin install skill-creator@claude-plugins-official The factory. Turns natural language into reusable skills. 2. Superpowers → /plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official Stops Claude sprinting. Plans, tests, verifies before claiming done. 3. Claude Mem → /plugin marketplace add thedotmack/claude-mem Carries memory across sessions automatically. 4. GSD → npx get-shit-done-cc --claude --global Beats context rot by splitting work across sub-agents. Heads up: uses more tokens. 5. Frontend Design → /plugin install frontend-design@claude-plugins-official Fixes the AI-slop look on UI work. Strongest before-after of the bunch. Install them in this order. Each one fills a hole the next one doesn't try to cover. If you've got a sixth one I should be running, drop it below — always testing.