[troupo]

Anthropic literally advertises long sessions, 1M context, high reasoning etc.

And then their vibe-coders tell us that we are to blame for using the product exactly as advertised: https://x.com/lydiahallie/status/2039800718371307603 while silently changing how the product works.

Please stop defending hapless innocent corporations.

[jghn]

This oversells how obfuscated it is. I'm far from a power user, and the opposite of a vibe coder. Yet I noticed the effect on my own just from general usage. If I can do it, anyone can do it.

[troupo]

Here's Anthropic's own Boris Cherny and others telling how great everything is with long sessions and contexts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886087

[taormina]

Listen, no one cares if you think you’re smart for seeing through the lies of their marketing team. You’re being intentionally obtuse.

[jghn]

My point is the opposite. I don't think my observation was smart, and I'm surprised to so many people here, a venue with a lot of people who use this stuff far more than I do, think it wasn't an easy to grok thing.

[taormina]

You’re still intentionally missing the point. Everyone knows they are lying. It doesn’t excuse the lies!

[jghn]

I’m not. Why would anyone believe marketing speak for any product? One should always assume that at best they’re fluffing their product up and more likely that they’re telling straight up lies

[troupo]

1. False advertisement is a thing, to the point there are laws against it

2. They were caught blatantly lying, and you're literally telling everyone it's the users' fault for not digging into the black box that is Claude Code (and more so Anthropic's servers) and figuring its behavior for themselves. A behavior that suddenly changed on a March day [1] and which previously very few people ever needed to investigate.

[1] https://x.com/levelsio/status/2029307862493618290