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jcgrilloyesterday at 10:42 PM1 replyview on HN

That quote jumped out at me for a different reason... it's simply a falsehood. Claude code is built with an LLM which is a pattern-matching machine. While human researchers undoubtedly do some pattern matching, they also do a whole hell of a lot more than that. It's a ridiculous claim that their tool "reasons about your code the way a human would" because it's clearly wrong--we are not in fact running LLMs in our heads.

If this thing actually does something interesting, they're doing their best to hide that fact behind a steaming curtain of bullshit.


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nadisyesterday at 11:12 PM

That's a fair point and agreed that human researchers certainly do more than just pattern match. I took it as sort of vision-y fluff and not literally, but do appreciate you calling that out more explicitly as being wrong.