alt Hacker NewsThat confirms the recent spike of Claude calling everything I was recently working on a 'spike'. I still don't know what that term is supposed to represent (apparently).
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xg15 • today at 6:30 PM
A spike is an early prototype that you're supposed to throw away after having figured out the real design.
I think it was subtly dissing you.
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In some software development methodologies, "spike" is a task whose goal is figuring something out instead of delivering shippable code. https://agiledictionary.com/209/spike/