Comment by JohnMakin
4 months ago
I’ve seen you/anthropic comment repeatedly over the last several months about the “thinking” in similar ways -
“most users dont look at it” (how do you know this?)
“our product team felt it was too visually noisy”
etc etc. But every time something like this is stated, your power users (people here for the most part) state that this is dead wrong. I know you are repeating the corporate line here, but it’s bs.
It's to prevent distillation. Duh
of course that’s the reason but don’t pretend it’s some user guided decision
They don’t want to officially disclose the reality because while some users will understand the realities of protecting a product while innovating, many will just realize it means one can go looking for claude 4.5 performance elsewhere.
building for the loud users on a forum is generally a losing move. if we built notion for angry HN users, we'd probably be a great obsidian competitor with end to end encryption, have zero ai features, and make zero money.
Anecdotally the “power users” of AI are the ones who have succumbed to AI psychosis and write blog posts about orchestrating 30 agents to review PRs when one would’ve done just fine.
The actual power users have an API contract and don’t give a shit about whatever subscription shenanigans Claude Max is pulling today
Generalisations and angry language but I almost agree with the underlying message.
New tools, turbulent methods of execution. There's definitely something here in the way of how coding will be done in future but this is still bleeding edge and many people will get nicked.
Uh, no. Definitely not me at all.
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Last time he made the front page he said the same things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978710
Then proceeded to fix nothing whatsoever.
It really does feel like he's just doing mostly what he wants and talking on behalf of vague made up users while real users complain on GitHub issues.