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tripleeelast Sunday at 4:00 PM3 repliesview on HN

They succeeded in spite of their tech choices. Their model outshone it, which is an extremely rare thing to happen and not something they could've counted on. In any other timeline they could've/would've been hurt by their choices.

It's like "why did you go all in on buying scamcoin 3.0 as your investment strategy?" -- "I 5xed my money! End of story! It was fine!"


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benoaulast Sunday at 4:16 PM

> They succeeded in spite of their tech choices.

Or those choices just don't matter, it's fundamentally just "tabs vs spaces".

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enraged_camellast Sunday at 4:31 PM

>> They succeeded in spite of their tech choices.

It is rarely the case that technology choice is the make-or-break when it comes to whether a product is successful and achieves widespread adoption. Some choices are less ideal than others, but at the end of the day if you manage to make something that people want, the rest won't matter much.

anamexislast Sunday at 4:18 PM

What do you mean in spite of their tech choices? When have the tech choices ever been an issue in the lifespan of Claude Code? From where I sit, it seems like their tech choices enabled them to create an industry-defining product.

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