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Claude Code’s feature cardinality is breathtaking. At this rate, the next pope will be from Anthropic

by exhaze 4mo ago

isoprophlex 4mo ago
sorry to post a shallow comment but this is a really excellent joke holy shit. well done.
- stingraycharles 4mo ago
  I am sorry for my ignorance, but I don’t understand the joke. What does the pope have to do with this?
  - huhkerrf 4mo ago
    The Pope is selected by the College of Cardinals. The joke is a play on "cardinality."
    - swyx 4mo ago
      also colah was invited by the literal pope to his encyclical https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclica...
  - new_account_101 4mo ago
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- cheschire 4mo ago
  I don't believe you deserve the downvotes you're getting. Sometimes a good joke is so good that it appears shallow at first glance, but only upon reflection does the true humor show through. A shallow callout such as yours is sometimes necessary to call the reader back to it for that further reflection.
  - smt88 4mo ago
    A few thoughts on this: - it’s against HN guidelines to comment on downvotes - comments are supposed to be substantive, further the discussion, and inspire curiosity (and I think the joke failed at all of those) - it’s not a great joke, just a shallow pun I’m guilty of often downvoting jokes on HN that are just jokes with no substance, partly because they end up causing confusion and noise, and they make the discussion less interesting. Reddit is a great place for those.
oinoom 4mo ago
given their recent speech, I’m sure theyre trying
SilverElfin 4mo ago
Jokes aside I find it hard to trust in the amount of things Anthropic throws out. It can’t be a well thought out and stable product this way.
- alwillis 4mo ago
  > Jokes aside I find it hard to trust in the amount of things Anthropic throws out. It can’t be a well thought out and stable product this way. I've never seen any company iterate on a product as quickly as Anthropic has with Claude. When you drill down into the details, it is well thought out and stable and well documented. It seems the feedback loop is so fast, they address issues before they can fester into major problems. The entire company uses Claude; there's not better dogfooding than that. It reminds me of how, back in the day, when continuous integration and continuous deployment were new; it seemed nuts to push code to production every day. And now, it's the norm.

Claude Code’s feature cardinality is breathtaking. At this rate, the next pope will be from Anthropic

by exhaze 4mo ago

Claude Code’s feature cardinality is breathtaking. At this rate, the next pope will be from Anthropic

isoprophlex 4mo ago

sorry to post a shallow comment but this is a really excellent joke holy shit. well done.

stingraycharles 4mo ago
I am sorry for my ignorance, but I don’t understand the joke. What does the pope have to do with this?
- huhkerrf 4mo ago
  The Pope is selected by the College of Cardinals. The joke is a play on "cardinality."
  - swyx 4mo ago
    also colah was invited by the literal pope to his encyclical https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclica...
- new_account_101 4mo ago
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cheschire 4mo ago
I don't believe you deserve the downvotes you're getting. Sometimes a good joke is so good that it appears shallow at first glance, but only upon reflection does the true humor show through. A shallow callout such as yours is sometimes necessary to call the reader back to it for that further reflection.
- smt88 4mo ago
  A few thoughts on this: - it’s against HN guidelines to comment on downvotes - comments are supposed to be substantive, further the discussion, and inspire curiosity (and I think the joke failed at all of those) - it’s not a great joke, just a shallow pun I’m guilty of often downvoting jokes on HN that are just jokes with no substance, partly because they end up causing confusion and noise, and they make the discussion less interesting. Reddit is a great place for those.

oinoom 4mo ago

given their recent speech, I’m sure theyre trying

SilverElfin 4mo ago

Jokes aside I find it hard to trust in the amount of things Anthropic throws out. It can’t be a well thought out and stable product this way.

alwillis 4mo ago
> Jokes aside I find it hard to trust in the amount of things Anthropic throws out. It can’t be a well thought out and stable product this way. I've never seen any company iterate on a product as quickly as Anthropic has with Claude. When you drill down into the details, it is well thought out and stable and well documented. It seems the feedback loop is so fast, they address issues before they can fester into major problems. The entire company uses Claude; there's not better dogfooding than that. It reminds me of how, back in the day, when continuous integration and continuous deployment were new; it seemed nuts to push code to production every day. And now, it's the norm.