Feels doubly so for Anthropic. There's just unbelievable level of glaze, and insane upvote velocity for "blog posts" that are essentially fluffed up feature documentation.
replySomehow everything boris says has become the word of God. The dude is just an engineer, like you and me, who gets unlimited tokens for free.
Yeah, I sometimes catch these posts minutes after they were submitted and they're full of highly upvoted glowing reviews that maintain their momentum on the top of the page.
replyAnd this is hacker news. A place where famously the most upvoted comment is the one critical of the post.
Upvoter here. Nothing special -- I like Claude a lot. I found it more ergonomic to work with, and I think its models are state of the art. I believe I'm more productive especially in legacy crufty codebases.
replyI may not be representative of the universe or have a controlled, randomized study to back it up, but that's not what upvotes are for are they?
That's a fair point. To play devils advocate to myself, it's possible that the huge upvote share is due to a much bigger marketshare among our community.
replyHN is astroturfed. Not just AI and also before AI took off. It's so easy and so valuable to astroturf HN
replyThe tech field has always been full of naive technology boosters. HN might be heavily astroturfed for all I know but I am sure there are many real people in a state of constant excitement over the progress of AI.
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