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Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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1160 points vxvxvx | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 11:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.192s | source

Earlier thread: Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45918638 - Nov 2025 (281 comments)
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notpublic ◴[16 Nov 25 13:12 UTC] No.45944874[source]▶
"A report was recently published by an AI-research company called Anthropic. They are the ones who notably created Claude, an AI-assistant for coding. Personally, I don’t use it but that is besides the point."

Not sure if the author has tried any other AI-assistants for coding. People who haven't tried coding AI assistant underestimates its capabilities (though unfortunately, those who use them overestimate what they can do too). Having used Claude for some time, I find the report's assertions quite plausible.

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1. stingraycharles ◴[16 Nov 25 14:47 UTC] No.45945502[source]▶
Yup. One recent thing I started using it for is debugging network issues (or whatever) inside actual servers. Just give it permission to SSH into the box and investigate for itself.

Super useful to see it isolate the problem using tcpdump, investigating route tables, etc.

There are lots of use cases that this is useful for, but you need to know its limits and perhaps even more importantly, be able to jump in when you see it’s going down the wrong path.