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345 points · 226 comments · bcherny

  1. pclowes · · focus · HN ↗
    Having listened to him give a couple of talks I am always struck by how much he talks and writes like Claude code.

    I don’t think he farms out all of his writing and talking to LLMs. I don’t think Claude code was trained to emulate him or anything.

    I think his “voice” has been filed LLM smooth by years of agent based interactions. He claims Anthropic engineers use an average of 500+ agents a day. They are human interfaces to token generators more than human to human communication. They are picking up the tendencies of their most frequent communication partner.

    Unfortunately, I see Claude being wrong often enough that I view it as a faulty narrator. Often helpful, sometimes totally full of it.

    And now I subconsciously apply this filter to anything that sounds like Claude.

    Makes me nervous that my voice may be becoming that of a faulty narrators.

    1. bmitc · · focus · HN ↗
      > He claims Anthropic engineers use an average of 500+ agents a day.

      What are they doing all day with that, I wonder?

      1. simonw · · focus · HN ↗
        Does that mean 500 separate agents or 500 agent sessions I wonder.
        1. bdangubic · · focus · HN ↗
          the former
          1. simonw · · focus · HN ↗
            What does that mean though? Does it mean there are more than 500 different "agent" systems within Anthropic and employees interact with most of those in a daily basis?
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