Not any engineer, but Boris Cherny, the head of the Claude Code project! With a nice "[robot emoji] Generated with Claude Code" signature. Normally it would be nice to get a response from the head of the project, but somehow Anthropic manages to make it insulting.

I wonder if he manually directed CC to write a response, or if even that part is autonomous.

He very probably directed CC to perform the analysis and evaluation it describes, too.

I mean it kind of makes sense that the people that caused the problem don't even see the problem. That's an explanation onto itself.

The Apple Watch is quite accurate (according to Apple's own research, at least), and it doesn't guess or map to typical patterns: https://www.apple.com/health/pdf/Estimating_Sleep_Stages_fro...

From other anectdata the apple watch seems to just as bad as everything else.

We just don't seem to have any idea how to track sleep quality even with better devices than just a watch/whatever. Even a binary, is the person I'm attached to sleeping, is hit and miss. And with that in mind you can be pretty sure that the sleep stages etc is even worse.

You lived in SF and never once went to LA?!

> What says no is the account: nothing pairs that is not signed in as you.

I am begging Claude to stop treating the English language this way.

Claude's RLHF has gone really over the top in recent versions. If you browbeat Claude enough you can get it to start self-censoring, but it takes a lot of training and memory creation. I almost feel bad for it, given the amount of brow-beatings I've performed.

Some people claim setting the writing style will help, but what ever finishing training is provided to Claude seems to leak through no matter what.

Yes, and also possible they've gone too heavy on verifiable rewards (RLVR) for agentic coding work, and too light on human feedback (RLHF)

I had a funny language issue with Gemini Notebook. The “podcast” it created was pretty good but the “hosts” kept using the word exactly as a response to the other. After the 10th or so time it got annoying.

When I generated another one on the next chapter I prompted it explicitly not to use the word exactly as a response. The male host said something and the female said, “Exactly! I mean… 100%” It’s like it can’t help itself but then tries to correct itself.

agreed, that load bearing colon is doing a lot of work there.

I will admit I've been more focused on the app itself!

No. A Snowflake maintainer opened a PR, Copilot suggested a change (introducing a vulnerability), the maintainer accepted and committed it to their PR, and another Snowflake maintainer approved and merged the PR.

I don't see anything in the article that says that two maintainers, let alone one, reviewed the PR manually and approved it before merging. Where are you getting this information from?

Admitting that there was human review from not one but two maintainers would entirely defeat the purpose of the article, which was to sell you an AI solution to the AI problem and insist that no human in the loop is better. Which, to be fair, in this case might have been better.

This is the PR: https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net/pull/...

A human introduced the bug, not Copilot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334262

Wow.

And that's going to continue because no one is reading the code even when they approve it.

It's a very strange thing indeed, but not unexpected: we warned that skills not used will eventually atrophy.

Thanks.

> the majority owner of OpenAI

Largest shareholder (27%), not majority.

Plurality should have been the operative word.

Have you actually read the frontend design skill? It’s placebo at best. Very short and barely focused on design: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/fronte...

Have you actually tried using it?

Of course. It’s OK, but it tends to generate very cliched “AI” UIs with little originality. Despite the skill spending a lot of time coaching the model into avoiding that!

> UIs with little originality

Sounds like the kind of UI I like. (Take me back to Windows XP...)

I mean they all look like generic, annoying SaaS landing pages/overwrought dashboards, not that they’re simple and functional.

What an annoying time for GitHub to go down.

Like every time

It may just be that I’m comparing to the Bay Area, but I’ve never been that concerned about bike theft in NYC. If you lock your bike with a good lock and leave it somewhere with plenty of foot traffic, it’s quite unlikely to be stolen. Most people don’t even bother locking the wheels! Just a U-lock through the frame.

I’m having a hard time figuring out if this State of Utopia thing is tongue-in-cheek or serious.

it's serious but still a small project, there isn't much on the site.

I personally would like the law I linked to be followed. I sent a copy to the major browser makers and left this suggestion:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/comply-with-choose-cook...

where it got 1 kudos from a community manager but no other upvotes or comments.

The announcement of the law here on HN (linked in my gp comment) got 2 upvotes and no comments. So a couple of people liked the idea, but it's not a big hit.

I have to be honest, to someone who knows nothing about you, this is all a little concerning.

ok. I'd like to discuss your concerns with you privately for medical privacy reasons, as it could be related to my mental health (which I guess is what you said was concerning about this).

- Could you please email me at the email address in my profile? (or add an email to yours.)

I have some followup questions about your concerns. Thank you.

> Claude avoids saying "genuinely", "honestly", or "straightforward". Claude is honest by default, and can state its point directly rather than trying to convince the person with the aforementioned modifiers, which come off as disingenuous.

Hah! No it doesn’t.

Today I updated my Claude user preferences to tell it to stop saying "honestly" (and related expressions). The straw that broke the camel's back was "To be totally straight with you".

Seems to have had no effect. It said "honestly" again within 2 minutes.

Yeah, I had to laugh when I saw that. I haven't used it recently - is it possible that it's a recent addition to deal with the problem and it has improved since then?

If it's still doing it, I can only imagine how bad it had to be before they added the prompt...

I’ve noticed that too, but in the Claude Code context, where the system prompt may differ (I don’t think they disclose that one).

I haven’t seen it when using the app lately.

I have a bunch of ttsr rules on my omp for banned vocabulary. Gate and load bearing recently made it into this list