A tale of two Claudes

57 points by steveklabnik


jscn

This is part of why having friends is great

This line jumped out at me. I think this highlights one of the (many) indirect hazards of “AI” tool usage. Over time, if it’s “easier” (lower friction and good enough) to rely on a tool instead of a friend, we’ll default to using it more, and weaken our social ties to other humans. It’s fundamentally anti-social.

peterbourgon

“Claude Code” isn’t the same thing for everyone, it’s really just a name for an Anthropic product which uses some underlying model to do its work, and that model can change via many different parameters, including just plain ol’ time, but also according to Claude Code settings via e.g. ANTHROPIC_MODEL env var (with caveats of course). So it’s tricky to draw any kind of conclusions from any particular user experience of Claude Code at any point in time, there are just so many underlying variables that impact those results and are gonna change between users, over time, etc.