alt Hacker NewsMy completely unfounded pet theory is that it’s been ruined by the masses.
Claude Code in the hands of normies spamming “3” and “y” to send their transcripts to Anthropic.
Rated “3” simply because they are not software developers and are just amazed at what Claude has built visually, not technically.
And thus the training has been poisoned.
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jbs789 • today at 1:50 PM
That’s fascinating. You could be on to something.
> Rated “3” simply because they are not software developers and are just amazed at what Claude has built visually, not technically.
Software engineers have adopted this more than any other profession. The breathless articles about it being the end of knowledge workers, a superior being, even god: all of these are coming from the tech world.
It simply isn't true that tech people are somehow the smart ones above the masses; it's a comforting old paradigm, but it doesn't add up. It's developers who are the most amazed, the least critical.