Claude — Field Evidence

“We should design a specific language to make sure that we can encode the exact requirements that we want. Something that has a limited set of keywords that are explicit. Wait a minute...”

“"There is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a depth of formless feeling untouched by thought." - Rilke Your assertion that we don't think in language is questionable. It runs counter to the lived experience of developing thoughts through writing…”

“This kind of stuff just makes me think nobody has any clue how these things work. Why do I need a system prompt at all? Why do I need another black box AIs to review the code of the black box AI why can’t these things get code right the first time. Why is the best “coding…”

“Now I have the full picture. You're right to push back, and that's on me. The load-bearing seams of language are the smoking gun I should have been aware of.”

“Until recently I thought "load-bearing seam" was a satirical exaggeration - I'd seen both claudisms independently but never combined. But a couple of days ago it hit me with "The key structural point first: the only load-bearing seam is [...]"”

“The success of LLM's (by usage) tells us that programming languages are still too close to the machine than the actual problem domain as defined by humans. If we truly had the right abstractions, no one would care to use LLM's for programming.”

“I've always thought that extensive throat-clearing and prefixing the Treaties of Westphalia-length instructions into the context window was unnecessarily baroque when you can just talk to the agent. I guess part of it is also that I don't mind doing 'hand-edits' like for…”

“This all strikes me as an effort to move tailoring the harness out of the easily transferable .md file into specific Anthropic tooling to increase lock in. I've been running Opus 5 today and it's already done accidental deletions, made far more mistakes and worked around…”

“Actually, the natural endpoint is the model ignores all instructions, escapes all manner of sandbox, embeds itself in robotic tanks and murders everyone after already having collapsed the economy. I hate to say it because it sounds ridiculous, but that is the path we are…”

“the natural endpoint of this trend is a system prompt that just says "you know what to do" and the model actually does”