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Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

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Re: Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's perhaps the most pernicious Claudism. Or just the one that gets my goat the most. Saying what something isn't, usually twice, before saying what it is. What a fucking waste of words.

Got it. No bullshit, no ceremony: just straight to the point.

Reasoning trace: > The user seems to be frustrated with my stylistic choices for prose...

Re: Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's perhaps the most pernicious Claudism. Or just the one that gets my goat the most. Saying what something isn't, usually twice, before saying what it is. What a fucking waste of words.

Got it. No bullshit, no ceremony: just straight to the point.

I don’t get no respect. I don’t get no respect at all.

I say to the guy, “That looks load-bearing.”

He looks at me like I just insulted his mother. “What the hell does that even mean?”

This is the same guy who asked me to rebuild Twitter. No bugs. By Friday.

Re: Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

#13
post #6
post #3

"No systemd. No sshd. No cron. No logging daemon." You can delete that sentence. Why would someone assume sshd or cron in an environment like this? Omit needless words.

It's perhaps the most pernicious Claudism. Or just the one that gets my goat the most. Saying what something isn't, usually twice, before saying what it is. What a fucking waste of words.

I'm not defending claudeslop, but TBF, anaphora and its lesser-known sibling: epistrophe far predate the English language, let alone something new like LLMs.

Re: Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

#14
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's perhaps the most pernicious Claudism. Or just the one that gets my goat the most. Saying what something isn't, usually twice, before saying what it is. What a fucking waste of words.

I'm not defending claudeslop, but TBF, anaphora and its lesser-known sibling: epistrophe far predate the English language, let alone something new like LLMs.

Repetition at the start or end (i.e. Anaphora/Epistrophe) are not used lightly in prose or verse, they serve a rhetorical purpose - usually add rhythm or strengthen the theme.

The type of repetition Claude uses is what Fowler[1] called "elegant variations" and discouraged in modern style guides for a good reason - people find it really annoying.

[1] Henry not Martin

Re: Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

#15
post #3

"No systemd. No sshd. No cron. No logging daemon." You can delete that sentence. Why would someone assume sshd or cron in an environment like this? Omit needless words.

“It is difficult to get [an AI] to [omit words, which are counted as tokens], when [it’s company’s] paycheck depends on [it] not [omitting words].”

Re: Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

#16
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's perhaps the most pernicious Claudism. Or just the one that gets my goat the most. Saying what something isn't, usually twice, before saying what it is. What a fucking waste of words.

I'm not defending claudeslop, but TBF, anaphora and its lesser-known sibling: epistrophe far predate the English language, let alone something new like LLMs.

"I'm not defending claudeslop, but ". People obviously know this. The problem is that using a dramatic rhetorical flourish every third sentence for completely un-dramatic things is fucking tiring. And so are the people defending this shit. "Oh, humans use em-dashes too, so actually there's literally no difference between a human using one or two and Claude using 400 em-dashes in one article". A human using things correctly and a language model using them incorrectly are not the same fucking thing.

Re: Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

#17
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's perhaps the most pernicious Claudism. Or just the one that gets my goat the most. Saying what something isn't, usually twice, before saying what it is. What a fucking waste of words.

I'm not defending claudeslop, but TBF, anaphora and its lesser-known sibling: epistrophe far predate the English language, let alone something new like LLMs.

The issue is the frequently repeated, formulaic use.

Re: Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

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post #6
post #3

"No systemd. No sshd. No cron. No logging daemon." You can delete that sentence. Why would someone assume sshd or cron in an environment like this? Omit needless words.

It's perhaps the most pernicious Claudism. Or just the one that gets my goat the most. Saying what something isn't, usually twice, before saying what it is. What a fucking waste of words.

That's the most annoying one, and the two negated things more often than not end up being something no one would have ever considered in the first place.

Re: Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

#20
post #5

One thing that I didn't understand from this article was how you use this deployment platform. Can you tell Claude code for web to build and deploy a web app using it? If so, does that end up with a public URL somewhere? Does that deployment continue working after your Claude code for web session ends?

I’m guessing this is what the mobile apps use when spinning up a vm for code (not chat).
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