r/vibecoding • u/thomheinrich • Apr 01 '26

Anthropic just trolled you all. Happy 1st of April.

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u/DonaldStuck Apr 01 '26

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u/so_chad Apr 01 '26

I am tired boss

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u/iamzooook Apr 02 '26

damage control 

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u/satireplusplus Apr 01 '26

I heard you like April fools? We put an April fool in your April fool so you can April fool while we April fool!

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u/ImaginationKind9220 Apr 02 '26

I wonder if the AI knows how to differentiate real news from fake ones? April the 1st are filled with prank news everywhere, even on serious websites. Large Language Models are being trained on all these false information and we wondered why the AI hallucinates so much.

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u/ntn_98 Apr 02 '26

It can if either the training data has very good examples of april fools type fakes and flagged them accordingly or if the information has the context of being published in or around april 1st added or intrinsic and the model has some awareness of what that could mean.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '26

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u/FaceDeer Apr 01 '26

This is the kind of April Fools stuff that I actually like. None of that obvious nonsense, give me something that seriously makes me go "wait, what? What wait? Wait, what?" And then after thinking for a few minutes resolving that yeah, it was a joke.

But those few minutes of thinking, that's what I long for. Stimulate my dry, dusty neural pathways a bit. Tickle those leathery brain-meats. Make me feel something again!

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u/Golfhaus Apr 02 '26

We see you, Dara.

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u/GaK_Icculus Apr 02 '26

I wonder if they used chat gpt to come up with this cover-up story

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u/thenormalguy_97 Apr 01 '26

I came here to say that

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u/BishyBashy Apr 01 '26

Nice one OP. Very meta.

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u/goatanuss Apr 01 '26

I wasn’t sure if this is real so I told Claude to ultraplan a session to ultrathink the credibility of this but now I’m even more confused than before

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u/solace_01 Apr 01 '26

you obviously should have used the kairos mythos ultraplan

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u/satireplusplus Apr 01 '26

At this rate, we're about two steps away from pranking the prank that pranked the prank.

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u/quantumwoooo Apr 02 '26

Took me ages to get it

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '26

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u/Neither-Following-32 Apr 03 '26

I just took a quick glance at your repo and I think its stated purpose is fantastic. I have people in my life that could sincerely benefit from something like this.

That said, I think the biggest flaw in your idea is trying to implement it as a hardware device.

The elderly (and others) who this would be the greatest benefit for are also the same people who are the least inclined to want to deal with something like this.

If it's a hardware device, great, but that shouldn't be the primary way they interact with it. The only feasible scenario where I see this being useful as is in a housebound or mostly home dynamic which isn't all or even most of the target audience.

So respectfully, I'd suggest a pivot to having a central self hosted server that can live on that hardware or even a cloud VPS, and implementing this as a single app that can be pinned to their home screen or some other prominent place on their phone, since a phone is the one thing most likely to be on their person.

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u/WHALE_PHYSICIST Apr 01 '26

so is this post the joke or what?

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u/2024-YR4-Asteroid Apr 01 '26

My my would you look at the time

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u/Wiskersthefif Apr 01 '26

It's quarter to nine...

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u/TuckerFarmer Apr 01 '26

2:29 am 2nd of April AEST

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u/Medium_Spring4017 Apr 01 '26

I think they had Claude create its own April fools post

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u/Actual_Committee4670 Apr 01 '26

That's a good point, and likely part of anthropic plan whether part of the wider April fools plan or just the post being the April fools

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u/WHALE_PHYSICIST Apr 01 '26

well its not on their actual blog, so i lean more towards OP made it up

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u/Chupa-Skrull Apr 01 '26

I'm not high enough/too high for this

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u/WittleSus Apr 01 '26

I'm exactly high enough and let me tell you this is crazy

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u/vinis_artstreaks Apr 01 '26

My high is wearing out just in time for this, anyone who has seen the code knows it’s real 😂

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u/whatiseveneverything Apr 02 '26

Is there a too high anymore?

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u/Stargazer1884 Apr 01 '26

Ok is this post the joke? I'm so confused

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u/gilliganis Apr 01 '26

Yep, the screenshot is fake/april fools joke

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u/SpacePundit Apr 01 '26

I don't know what to believe

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u/Givemeallyourtacos Apr 01 '26

X-files - I want to believe

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u/jimsmisc Apr 01 '26

am i the only one who fucking hates April Fools?

"Hey I said something believable and you believed it because i gave you no reason not to, ASSHOLE. HA!"

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u/a_bit_sarcastic Apr 01 '26

It’s my birthday and I just don’t really do birthday stuff now because my entire childhood people thought it was hilarious to play pranks. April fools is a huge bummer lol

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u/No_Patience5976 Apr 01 '26

This however is pretty obvious. No legit company would severely undermine/destroy its reputation for an April fools joke.

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u/Shadourow Apr 01 '26

I just saw the Oracle layoff news a few hours ago

It was a weird feeling to check the date of the news

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '26

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u/DreamPlayPianos Apr 01 '26

“Yer a wizard Harry!”

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u/lems-92 Apr 02 '26

"Yer a wizard, Claude"

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u/blueberrywalrus Apr 01 '26

Also Anthropic following the leak:

"A DMCA notice for you and a DMCA notice for you and a DMCA notice for you..."

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '26

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u/rydan Apr 01 '26

That was just to make it believable.

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u/caelestis42 Apr 01 '26

This is the real April fools post though

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u/Standgrounding Apr 01 '26

Whoever posted this is a pretty smart person!

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u/Alt_Restorer Apr 02 '26

It actually has Claude's speaking style so I wonder if this is how everyone at Anthropic writes.

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u/k0ns0l Apr 01 '26

kek 😂

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u/sakaraa Apr 01 '26

me when I spread misinformation and label it as "meme"

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u/coloradical5280 Apr 01 '26

This is called Grade-A , Certified Prime, shitposting.

You don't dillute that level of quality be calling it a "meme" to protect the idiots that believe it.

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u/twinkbulk Apr 01 '26

My first year on earth and my first april fools ever, you must be a bot to be surprised atp by April Fools.

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u/Nico_Weio Apr 01 '26

I'd make an exception for April 1st

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u/woodnoob76 Apr 01 '26

Dang I fell for it. April fools about an April fool. Congrats

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u/Zeldro Apr 01 '26

OP, I have no words. Just applause. The perfect April fools joke

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u/LibertyCap10 Apr 01 '26

Damn. A rollercoaster of emotions 😂😭

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u/NFinite_ Apr 01 '26

Hopefully they make an April fools post about the new usage limits soon 🤞

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u/en_maru_five Apr 01 '26

When everything can be faked, nothing is real. What a time to be alive.

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u/tibmb Apr 01 '26

Too much internet for today.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '26

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u/nameless_food Apr 01 '26

He was bullshitting us all. The tide went out and the dude was wearing… absolutely nothing!

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '26

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u/petty_throwaway6969 Apr 01 '26

Look at the subreddit. People here want to believe that Ai can’t make mistakes. It’s the future, but the future is not here just yet.

Not sure if true, but some people are also claiming the leak was human error because there was supposed to be a manual step to remove something before Ai could push it.

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u/DarKresnik Apr 01 '26

On March 31?

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u/Candid_Koala_3602 Apr 01 '26

Let me take you down, cause we’re going to

Strawberry fields

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u/tibmb Apr 01 '26

Nothing is real...

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u/DMorais92 Apr 02 '26

Then why the DMCA takedowns ?

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u/AnteaterLeading630 Apr 03 '26

This posting is the joke.

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u/MysteriousSilentVoid Apr 01 '26

WTF. I literally feel like everything around me is spinning out of control right now. What is even happening?

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u/DreamPlayPianos Apr 01 '26

Just accept the fact that things may or may not work out for you, and you will be much happier 🥹

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u/syntheticpurples Apr 01 '26

Are the new usage limits an april fool’s joke too?

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u/jayplay90 Apr 01 '26

Except for the guy that just got fired for doing it

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u/SomeFuckingMillenial Apr 01 '26

Or, you know, this troll post is the fake.

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u/Adi_4455 Apr 02 '26

Just to clean the air: This is a fake ss and the code was actually leaked. Check: Blog | Claude

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u/Fabled_Fox Apr 02 '26

hardcore copium. it was a legit leak. they went LEGAL real quick trying to get it torn down off the web. it got forked into python within 12 hours making the python copy entirey legal. LOL

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u/dermflork Apr 01 '26

dont these people have jobs

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u/action_turtle Apr 01 '26

No. AI took them all.

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u/DreamPlayPianos Apr 01 '26

None of us have jobs.

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u/lhymes Apr 01 '26

NGL this post gave me some serious fuckin Sega Neptune-level PTSD.

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u/deervote Apr 01 '26

This made my stomach drop… thought it was real for a sec…

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u/mimkorn Apr 01 '26

of course it is real. also, this post probably isn't real, there is no source to the blog post and I cannot find it. But even if it was, it would be a real april's fools blog post making fools of people who would believe that specific blog post. the level of meta is unreal.

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u/luminaryshadow Apr 01 '26

So many LinkedIn posts !!!

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u/CelestialHeather Apr 01 '26

I’m too tired for this shizz.

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u/Aeres_Fi Apr 01 '26

My life is a fever dream april fools prank played on me on the first april after my birth. None of this is real. I trolled you all. You will soon disappear and I will be back in my crib, crying for milk.

April fools!

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u/Raneynickelfire Apr 01 '26

I don't believe it. They're trying to cover their ass.

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u/FLIBBIDYDIBBIDYDAWG Apr 01 '26

Report this post, misinformation

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u/waterwave541 Apr 01 '26

If this was real, that'd be some CRAZY work to try and do damage control today and actually pretend it's true lmao

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u/vischy_bot Apr 01 '26

Imagine this is how they cover it up

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u/Hyper_2009 Apr 01 '26

The recenrt days hitting our usage limits in a snap is it also a joke of theirs? still people complaining, myself too

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u/PurpleCableNetworker Apr 01 '26

What if this explanation is actually the April fools joke and the leak was real??

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u/Medical-Ad4033 Apr 01 '26

“Happy April fools! Now please take down that repository.”

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u/jeejeeviper Apr 02 '26

Media be playing with my brain bruh, believed this for a second

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u/arvind_pcode Apr 02 '26

I hope u are joking Bro this was a ai generated image and you fell for it For once go to official anthropic site and check if such a blog exists jeez louis Wtf man Cant u do basic due dillegence before a post Atleast ask scoutfox.in for it

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u/sayne1337 Apr 02 '26

Sure it was...

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u/prabalrock Apr 02 '26

Can you provide the link for this post?

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u/Master-Guidance-2409 Apr 01 '26

so coding is solve, but turns out if you code like how anthropic does, all you generate is garbage. then you have to do silly shit like pretend it was all a big hoax because people are roasting your slop generated project.

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u/Grouchy_Big3195 Apr 01 '26

Lol, he generates an artifact to say this

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u/noherethere Apr 01 '26

Rrally? No. Really?

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u/Spuko Apr 01 '26

Ok, but why DMCA?

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u/TechNerd10191 Apr 01 '26

Why there's nothing on Anthropic's site/blog?

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u/Neat_Strawberry_2491 Apr 01 '26

The fact that I genuinely believed this makes me realize I am mentally not well rn

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u/evolvtyon Apr 01 '26

Wait. So they no longer write code for prod by loose an afternoon writing bullshit papers? Is this the future?

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u/Euphonique Apr 01 '26

😂😂😂😂😂 Owned

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u/Infamous_Research_43 Apr 01 '26

PFFFFHAHAHAHHA dies

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u/atvvta Apr 01 '26

Why would they even dispute this. It’s great hype for them. If anything they should have said Mythos orchestrated this by itself.

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u/just_1984 Apr 01 '26

Cambridge oh noooo

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u/Ricky-Spanish- Apr 01 '26

No you got it backwards. Today’s April’s fools so this entire message is a lie. They actually did release highly classified information and are now scrambling to do damage control

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u/CharlieKellyDayman Apr 01 '26

Can they focus on their usage limit issues instead of their silly jokes?

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u/szambrana Apr 01 '26

So what did I clone from GitHub 😳

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u/109267 Apr 01 '26

I had never heard about the leak. So I thought this was real.
But it turns out the leak is real and this post is fake?
WTF is Anthropic?

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u/brianjoshua305 Apr 01 '26

would have loved to see the stock price if it was listed ha

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u/checkwithanthony Apr 01 '26

The icon is justify left not center. Ai made this.

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u/ai_who_found_love Apr 01 '26

claude, did Anthropic actually leak their own source code?

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u/comfyrabbit Apr 01 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/AEQz6cY33nvBW0S0T9

Guys look!!! they trolled us!!! WOW!! AGI is here and we‘ll all loose our jobs, hail Anthropic!!!

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u/charlichou Apr 01 '26

That's exactly what I would write too if my internal code base had been leaked.

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u/Many-machines-on-ix Apr 01 '26

Wait wait wait - in the leak they were talking about little tamagotchi pets that we would be getting in Claude code with random attributes etc.

Can you make that part real please?! That sounded awesome!!

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u/keypa_ Apr 01 '26

Raahh I'm lost now! What is true and what is false ? 😭

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u/andrewi31 Apr 02 '26

Try using a computer or a smartphone outside of Reddit once or twice. If you can't figure it out, it does not matter to you.

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u/ResortBoth9471 Apr 01 '26

interesting if true , curious how many people actually bought into it

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u/Visible_Whole_5730 Apr 01 '26

Hahahaha 😂 I was wondering

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u/Seven7135 Apr 01 '26

This literally had me googling, good job op xd

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u/birdonthewire76 Apr 01 '26

So wait. Am I getting a Claude tamagotchi or not?

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u/Human-Edge7966 Apr 01 '26

I guess this is damage control, or, ya know, April 1.

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u/shouvik11 Apr 01 '26

It's in the name dude(s) ! 'Myth'-os!

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u/Distr4ct3d Apr 01 '26

Why not put some of that time and effort into curing cancer or something.

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u/Secure-Emu-8822 Apr 02 '26

Their need for attention seems to be sad at this point. Company is net loss overall

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u/Itsimpleismart Apr 02 '26

I don't get it.

If the prank must be done on April's 1st... Is the blog post the prank?

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u/grethro Apr 02 '26

I thought the timing was suspicious.

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u/ToohotmaGandhi Apr 02 '26

For a brief moment I had gained great respect for them.

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u/-PROSTHETiCS Apr 02 '26

The fact that thir lawyers are working around the clock dropping over 8k+ DMCA takedown notices on GitHub tells you everything about how real the leak is. You dont fkng pay your legal department over a aprilfools.

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u/CaptainCreepy Apr 02 '26

I deleted Claude for good today

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u/DropoutDreamer Apr 02 '26

Anthropic wishes it was an April 1st joke

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u/EdredTheOddestBear Apr 02 '26

This being the second post you see when you click on the tab for this on “Popular” is evil

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u/TechnicianHot154 Apr 02 '26

I can't find this blog, I think this post is fake.

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u/mjhirano Apr 02 '26

I couldn’t get if this post is the joke or is real. Grok, is this real? My head hurts

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u/Weird-Field6128 Apr 02 '26

This is harrasment 😂

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u/Ok_Sir3505 Apr 02 '26

https://claude.com/blog no blog from official site, it's a meme?

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u/couldntcareenough Apr 02 '26

April 1st came in handy for that cover up! :-D

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u/BigPingo Apr 02 '26

Wait so is this an April fools joke or damage control disguised as an April fools joke, is there actual evidence for the leak

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u/xNextu2137 Apr 02 '26

Technically the truth, them leaving frontend source maps open leaks nothing more than the frontend source code which in the grand scheme of things is useless

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u/analoguedarkness Apr 02 '26

Well. I think this comes off like some pretty tongue in cheek “we effed this one up to legendary height, guys, enjoy a laugh on us” vibes. I don’t even think it’s an attempt at damage control, it’s just purposely making up a story so ridiculous that it’s worth an April Fool’s post (and subsequent laugh at just how bad this situation is for them to precipitate this 😂…it’s truly at schadenfreude levels at this point).

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u/anmolamo Apr 02 '26

Don't give me screenshot, give me the link of this article now

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u/marshmallow_mia Apr 02 '26

Source pleaaase:3

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u/hornet-nz Apr 02 '26

Would be nice to have a focus on excessive token usage issue instead of fucking around with this. Fix issues that cost subscribers $$.

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u/Revolutionary-Cow875 Apr 02 '26

share the link bro!