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1. pclowes · 1789935365 · 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 · 1789935618 · 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 · 1789936078 · focus · HN ↗

         Does that mean 500 separate agents or 500 agent sessions I wonder.

         1. sitkack · 1789953698 · focus · HN ↗

            That isn't humanly possible, you will blow out your neurotransmitters and not be able to think. Only being semi serious, but we can't make that many decisions a day.

            1. Kim_Bruning · 1789954061 · focus · HN ↗

               Right, but you can imagine eg a hierarchy, in which case you might only talk with -say- 10 reports directly.

               1. sitkack · 1789954482 · focus · HN ↗

                  That isn't typically how abstraction is tallied. The ceo doesn't say they use 15k employees, or the programmer uses 30B transistors. Or the director uses 120 workers. You enumerate what you actually interact with.

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