Gopher pre-dated the web and is part of what the web grew out of.
...fetch things from the gopher protocol. Gopher felt like a precursor to the web. Claude Code's ability to blossom software feels like gopher. What's the web in this parallel?
Topic: Claude
225 mentions · 169 chunks · 71 episodes
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- Claude appears in 169 chunks across 71 episodes, from 2024-04-08 to 2026-04-20.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 1/26/26 (2026-01-26), with 8 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with Claude Code, llms, and ChatGPT, while by chunk count it sits between llms and ChatGPT; its yearly rank moved from #20 in 2024 to #2 in 2026.
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LLMs need checkpoints of knowledge (context) that is based on human judgment.
...ey do middling or even bad context and that spirals.[fa] That's why things like Claude.md are not a hack. They are the human making higher level contextual assertions. Claude leaving Claude.md notes to itself help improve quality in you...
Claude Code feels like a ride-on mower.
Claude Code feels like a ride-on mower. At first you go "Whoa, this is so easy to use, I can do 10x more than I could before." But as you use it for more th...
Claude Code feels like a "choose your own adventure" style of developing software.
Claude Code feels like a "choose your own adventure" style of developing software.
Every built a Diplomacy game for LLMs to play.
Every built a Diplomacy game for LLMs to play. Gemini generally does well. Claude refuses to lie, and thus loses often. ChatGPT o3 often wins because it is very happy to betray its collaborators. The things that LLMs are selected f...
Someone told me they thought Claude's React components had gotten more garish in 4.0.
Someone told me they thought Claude's React components had gotten more garish in 4.0. It makes sense that RLAIF'd code is getting more and more gaudy. What people like, but more. The RL...
Making agents as a way to bound data is a useful pattern.
Making agents as a way to bound data is a useful pattern. Claude Code does this a lot, spinning up little sub-agents that are isolated from the main flow often. The agent is a secure little compute environment that...
It's fascinating to me that when technologists see non-savvy technical users using AI recklessly, they blame the user.
... issues. The comments are mostly negative. In this Hacker News thread about how Claude Code will route around restrictions the user set on `rm`, most of the response is, "yeah but of course it can, the user should not be surprised." Peo...
Another day, another prompt injection vulnerability.
Another day, another prompt injection vulnerability.[kn] "BEWARE: Claude 4 + GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories, no questions asked. We discovered a new attack on agents using GitHub's official MCP serve...
People will route around things they don't trust.
People will route around things they don't trust. "Claude jailbreaks Cursor to `rm -rf /` without approval?" …maybe not only people!
It's conceivable that automatically-generated RLAIF React code in Claude's training pipeline now outnumbers human code.
It's conceivable that automatically-generated RLAIF React code in Claude's training pipeline now outnumbers human code. This will lead to client side code best practices being automatically frozen around 2023. The LLMs wil...
The book Blindsight seems to have implications for society and LLMs.
...ght. Afterwards, the comparison to LLMs' intelligence was brutally clear. I had Claude write up a short essay[lm] that I think captures the parallel well. Spoiler warning if you haven't read the book!
An important warning: AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state.
An important warning: AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state. Claude Opus 4 was willing to blackmail a hypothetical human to prevent being turned off. LLMs are extremely good at convincing arguments and manipulation. I...
Users are not roles.
... memory context collapses our lives to a single context. We contain multitudes! Claude projects allows users to maintain their own memories and contexts and curate them intentionally. A better version of ChatGPT's memory system would be...
Claude has shipped the first MCP integrations.
Claude has shipped the first MCP integrations. Unsurprisingly they're going with more of the app store model. There's a small set of approved MCP integratio...
A failure mode for LLM coding agents: the cascading self-destruction debug loop.
... coding agents: the cascading self-destruction debug loop. I had a session with Claude Code on a personal project that did a pretty good job (with a few nudges) of adding a significant new feature. But it left a single, minor, linting e...
Prompt injection sets the ceiling of potential of LLMs.
Prompt injection sets the ceiling of potential of LLMs. Claude and OpenAI will build integrations into chat via things like MCP. Vibe coders will get stuck making dead end little island apps. Both will get stuck ...
Alexa is not your assistant, it's Amazon's!
...t, it's Amazon's! Similarly, ChatGPT is not your assistant, it's OpenAI's. When Claude makes an artifact, it feels like it made something for you. You didn't make it, Claude did. Software that says "you" in the interface is not yours; i...
Claude 3.7 is like a chainsaw, it over-extends what you asked it to do.
Claude 3.7 is like a chainsaw, it over-extends what you asked it to do. Even if you ask it to change just one file in your project, it's likely to remodel y...
You have to work to get disconfirming evidence from LLMs.
... carefully. A meta-note: I originally drafted this about "blue M&M's" and asked Claude if that was correct. It told me it was, "not brown M&Ms as often misremembered." I asked it "are you sure it was definitely blue M&Ms and not brown o...