Why Anaconda Acquired Outerbounds

Anaconda has acquired Outerbounds. But this isn’t really about an acquisition. It’s about a deeper shift: the way we’ve been building software no longer works for AI. For decades, software development has operated on a stable assumption. If you provide the same input, you should expect the same output. That assumption shaped everything around it, […]
Anaconda MCP: AI Development on Anaconda’s Trusted, Secure Foundation

You’ve been there. You spin up a new project and ask your AI coding assistant to get the environment ready. It confidently reaches for pip install. It guesses at package names. It tries to install cv2 when it should know to look for opencv. The YAML it generates is technically valid, but it ignores your […]