alt Hacker NewsThis is such a weird prompt even without the file edit misunderstanding. Analyze if it's malware how exactly? On every single file that gets read? Doing that with enough diligence to be meaningful is going to at least like 2x the amount of processing needed, and fill the context with a bunch of tangential reasoning about malware patterns.
This smacks of dumb vibe coding. "I got told to make sure claude couldn't be used to develop malware, ok 'claude pls no develop malware'"
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> and fill the context with a bunch of tangential reasoning about malware patterns.
The particularly bizarre part is that there is absolutely no reason to do this.
They could do the exact same analysis, and if it doesn't say to reject rewind to before they asked to do the analysis and keep going...
> Analyze if it's malware how exactly?
Maybe the repo/worktree is named my-big-evil-virus-trojan-malware-worm?
> Analyze if it's malware how exactly?
By spending thousands and thousands of tokens of course :-)
Could that be the explanation for the recently increased token use?
>Analyze if it's malware how exactly?
Based on the vibes, I guess.
It's proof that Anthropic is high on their own supply.
I've heard them described as data science script kiddies with inflated egos and it seems spot-on.