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Anthropic's Champion Kit for engineers pushing Claude Code at their company

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Re: Anthropic's Champion Kit for engineers pushing Claude Code at their company

#12
Providing the talking points for useful idiots who want to make themselves and others unemployed [1] is quite something.

Anthropic has always been astroturfing everywhere and now they make it explicit. In the way of marketing it is probably more evil than xAI and OpenAI.

[1] Or at least replace a reasonable profession with a dystopian and wasteful way of plagiarizing software.

Re: Anthropic's Champion Kit for engineers pushing Claude Code at their company

#13
Haha funny that they have this grassroots kit. I would have imagined that they'd need more of a "How to adopt Claude at your company" for execs. I wonder how today's sensibilities would intersect with how we used to spread Firefox use in the pre-web-standards era. Certainly the common then trick of installing Firefox and changing the icon to IE's would probably not fly.

Re: Anthropic's Champion Kit for engineers pushing Claude Code at their company

#15
This Scientology-ass blog aligns startlingly well with my hypothesis that certain tech workers (including CEOs like Dario Amodei and Satya Nadella) are excessively enamored with LLMs because of a fundamental spiritual emptiness and ignorance.

Imagine calling yourself a "Champion" and dispensing nuggets of wisdom like this:

>> When a colleague asks how you accomplished something, the most useful response is the prompt you actually used. They will learn more from running that prompt against their own problem than from any description you could write, and it gives them something they can act on immediately.

  Colleague: How did you get it to find that race condition?

  Champion: I asked, "The test in @tests/scheduler.test.ts is flaky, figure out why," and it traced two unjoined promises in the scheduler. Try the same phrasing on your test.
People quickly became too embarrassed to call themselves "prompt engineers." I don't think anyone is jumping at the bit to be the office Claude Champion.

Re: Anthropic's Champion Kit for engineers pushing Claude Code at their company

#17
Hahaha sell our product for us for no compensation!

I sense these AI companies getting desperate. Could it be that the public seem to hate AI? Could it be that they are making huge losses?

I'm being an anti champion, pushing back on my managers bullshit claims that AI can do everything, and my message is getting through to my coworkers. More and more doubt about the message they are getting from leadership is creeping in.

Don't let idiots in leadership who are just building their resume as an "AI manager" convince you your hard earned skills are useless now. Your skills are worth so much! Don't let them atrophy!

Re: Anthropic's Champion Kit for engineers pushing Claude Code at their company

#18
> Share what you discover

Hate this

My current company (and other companies from speaking to colleagues) are all requiring employees to do some AI "lunch and learn" or AI "share out" or AI "show and tell".

It's meeting inflation, a weekly meeting where each employee has to add an item to a doc and talk about it. And every employee has to take part, even if they have nothing.

So half the employees just come up with some BS: "Uhhh I tried this Claude Code skill I hadn't tried before...", "Read this article about X...interesting, may be what's coming in the future..."

Re: Anthropic's Champion Kit for engineers pushing Claude Code at their company

#20

Hahaha sell our product for us for no compensation! I sense these AI companies getting desperate. Could it be that the public seem to hate AI? Could it be that they are making huge losses? I'm being an anti champion, pushing back on my managers bullshit claims that AI can do everything, and my message is getting through to my coworkers. More and more doubt about the message they are getting from leadership is creepin…

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