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riazrizvi • today at 6:16 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

I wonder how much dog shit has crept into their codebase by this point. Another company might dogfood their product but Anthropic is so heavily marketing oriented, I doubt this is driven by the desire to improve the product as much as it is by the desire to pad out usage numbers and create shareable stories. No matter the consequences. I bet $1 it sucks to be a good engineer in their software effort.


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vorticalbox • today at 9:27 PM

A while ago the Claude code source code was leaked. It was very revealing.

From what I remember they had a large regex to match “bad words”

Rather than using their AI to simply scan messages to flag.

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realusername • today at 6:38 PM

I'm personally really not impressed by their software quality, at least we know from their experience that infinite tokens at the best model available still doesn't replace good engineering.

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zahlman • today at 6:54 PM

>>If I was an Anthropic employee expected to dog-food the product…

>I wonder how much dog shit has crept into their codebase by this point.

You'd think they'd know not to shit where they eat… ?