Comment by booty
8 hours ago
Sans context, I really like the Anthropic and Claude's faux-academic, minimal-ish, intellectual-ish branding.
(Especially the way it looked ~12 months ago -- it's gotten more cluttered since then. Perhaps unavoidably, as the breadth of their offerings has grown)
But over time it's begun to feel like unsettling cognitive dissonance as their ambitions grow and the stuff to worry about has piled up.
> faux-academic, minimal-ish, intellectual-ish branding
By this you sourely don't mean the messages shown in Claude Code, where Pi would show "Working..."
Academic style: Cooking... Sautéeing... Julienning... and similar annoying faux-brogrammer moody status messages.
It's straight from The Sims [1], which seems quite appropriate :)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims
You didn't have to look at "reticulating splines" all day long though. Anyway that stuff came from Sim City.