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booty • today at 3:11 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Sans context, I really like the Anthropic and Claude's faux-academic, minimal-ish, intellectual-ish branding.

(Especially the way it looked ~12 months ago -- it's gotten more cluttered since then. Perhaps unavoidably, as the breadth of their offerings has grown)

But over time it's begun to feel like unsettling cognitive dissonance as their ambitions grow and the stuff to worry about has piled up.


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fodkodrasz • today at 4:02 PM

> faux-academic, minimal-ish, intellectual-ish branding

By this you sourely don't mean the messages shown in Claude Code, where Pi would show "Working..."

Academic style: Cooking... Sautéeing... Julienning... and similar annoying faux-brogrammer moody status messages.

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