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r_leeyesterday at 2:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

I'm guessing he means overall the kind of circling and concluding that Claude does, like "the actual truth is more interesting than it seems" or "the real smoking gun is not the x, it's the y that was under our noses all this time" type of writing.


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dgacmuyesterday at 3:11 PM

"That's not a result, that's a broken harness, and it's worth publishing because I expect it to be common."

That's Claude. But I agree and am also glad the author, uh, clauded this up. :)

wongarsuyesterday at 7:07 PM

More examples from this article:

"A block with resident children isn't evictable. So the baseline is LRU over radix leaves, which is what SGLang and vLLM actually implement. Beating naive flat LRU would be a strawman."

"The two numbers measure different things in different regimes, and I initially framed this as a contradiction. It isn't."

"That's not a result, that's a broken harness, and it's worth publishing because I expect it to be common"