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So, why does Anthropic need so much aggressive marketing lately?

I’ve noticed that the so-called industry is always fixated on the most crappy language. First it was JavaScript, then Python, now English. They have the common problem of being too flexible and ambiguous, causing bugs that are incredibly hard to find. Yet somehow they always become the most popular, and there’s always a cult about it, mostly consist of people who aren’t real computer scientists.

“This time is different” are the famous last words.


Police in China would at least identify themselves, and never wear a mask.


“They rounded us up, forced us into labor camps, and sterilized all of us, but at least we could see their faces. That’s so much better than being sent back to your hometown by someone wearing a neck gaiter”


If I overpay for a house, shouldn’t it be taxed as a gift too? :p


Depends on the circumstances, but quite possibly?


What the AI bull Wall Street analysts didn’t realize is that AI will replace their job much sooner than replacing programmers.


I feel that with non-standard syntax like $100 + 25% tip it become very confusing whether the answer would be 100.25 or 125. I’ll end up spending a lot of time trying to verify the answer.


I have a ray tracer build on it on http://xinan.github.io/ray-tracer/


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