Anthropic deliberately made its access-program primitives generic because it did not know what other applications they might serve.

“Now, it was surprising to us, or maybe like, you know, in the portfolio approach, we found that we were actually able to take this and make it ex- we were like, when we're designing it, we're like, what kind of should it be?”

“How generic should it be? Should it not be too generic? Should it be overly focused on making this verification, you know, style portal plus granting of, of very specific capabilities of the model?”

“And we tended to opt for like more genericism because we were like, we don't know. Like maybe we can use this for other things, maybe not.”