It's probably a convenience feature. Tons of sites out there that start on www then bounce you to secure2.bank.com then to auth. and now you're on www2.bank.com and for some inexplicable reason need to type your login again.
Actually it's mostly financial institutions that I've seen this happen with. Have to wonder if they all share the same web auth library that runs on the Z mainframe, or there's some arcane page of the SOC2 guide that mandates a minimum of 3 redirects to confuse the man in the middle.
Anthropic feels like they are flailing around constantly trying to find something to do. A C compiler that didn't work, a browser that didn't work, and now solving bugs in Firefox.
This makes sense - they are demonstrating the capability of their core product by doing so? They dont make browsers, c compilers, they sell ai + dev tools.
Seems like a poor advertisement for their product if their shining example of utility is a broken compiler that doesn't function as the README indicates.
If it explore all these cases after a few month and made the tool itself obsolete, that sounds like a total win to me?
However that don't happen unless firefox just stop developing though. New code comes with new bug, and there must be some people or some tool to find it out.
I think OpenAI is flailing around too-- we're making an AI-generated shortform video app, we're rescinding restrictions on porn, we're making a... something... with Jony Ive-- but only Anthropic is flailing in a way beneficial to society instead of becoming a trillion dollar heroin dealer.
I don't know for certain, but moderators (on a company Discord) are likely random people in a 3rd world country that are payed peanuts and that is their only income. If higher ups tell them "I don't want to see the Microslop word anywhere" they just do it.
You should be angry at the higher ups that instead of saying: "maybe they are right and we can do better" they decided to hide the problem through censorship. Which, btw, always has the opposite effect of putting what you are trying to hide in the spotlight.
I saw a similar issue on r/PrivatEkonomi (Swedish.) Two doomerism post with subject somewhat adapted to the forum at hand. The two users were young accounts with private comment history.
Someone is definitely on a propaganda tour trying to seed negative sentiment.
I'm glad you said this otherwise someone would call me paranoid. Over on https://lobste.rs/ there is a user currently on their third account called "datarama3" who doom posts exactly like this once a week. It's really tiring.
Sadly I do see this slop taking off purely because something something AI, investors, shareholders, hype. I mean even the Chrome devtools now push AI in my face at least once a week, so the slop has saturated all the layers.
They don't give a fuck about accessibility unless it results in fines. Otherwise it's totally invisible to them. AI on the other hand is everywhere at the moment.
I don’t really think it’s pedantic it’s just that unless you preface a lot of comments on HN these days, you’ll get a lot of whataboutism and straw man arguments.
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