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StilesCrisis • today at 12:23 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Oh, it’s 100% absolutely Claude. There are more tells than this.

At any rate, “developers are disassembling it to find bugs” sounds extreme, but this is something Claude will do almost spontaneously, in my experience. I ran into an issue last week where a library wasn’t doing what I expected, and asked Claude to sort out why; I came back a few minutes later to find Claude tearing apart the library’s disassembly to reveal a mismatch in struct sizes between the library’s expectations and my headers. And it did solve the bug!


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glibg10b • today at 3:01 PM

Not just Claude. In my experience, almost any LLM running in Pi would rather go down rabbit holes than ask for clarification. I think the solution is to restrict what the LLM can do: If it keeps running into "permission denied" when trying to run disassemblers or read files in /lib64, then it's probably not doing what the user intended it to do.

But you're right, that report is definitely written by an LLM. Humans don't typically put parenthetical postmodifiers in headings ("Mechanism (from the shipped libc.so)"), but LLMs just love them too much.

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