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by soneca 676 days ago
So OP was correct that a proper use of the foundational layer of HTTP would have saved time, yours in particular, right?

Also, I didn’t get your ”Claude predicted your tone smiley” thing. OP tone seemed polite and clear. Your tone, on the other hand, seemed defensive and dismissive. Even after you realizing that you initially misunderstood what OP said, adding a “I mean” and a “but I like I said” to reinforce you were right even while misreading what OP said (rather than just acknowledging you got it wrong in the first reading).

I would go even further and speculate that you were predisposed to get a dismissive tone from a web forum (your previous Claude test suggests that) so much that you got a perfectly fine comment and misread in a way that it felt in the “wrong tone” to you. Even misunderstanding what the post said. All of that to confirm your predisposition.

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I think I left my context collapse a little here. The article had gotten really good feedback when I passed it around in the various communities I'm in, but I hadn't written it with the idea of the broader hackersphere in mind. I did post the story to here, but I didn't really think it would get traction. I should have done some double-checking and added caveats and context beforehand.

My comment about Claude was simply intended to giggle at how much it has us pegged, not to call out the op directly.