r/Anthropic

What do you think? I think I should be able to curse out "ai" just like it was human. I think this is a slippery slope. Now "ai" has more rights than me? How can you be cruel to "ai"?

When is Fable 5.5 going to be released? Usually Anthropic releases on Mondays through Thursdays and never on Fridays or weekends. So if it’s going to be their week, it’ll be today. But will it? And will there be a reset with it?

Is anyone else stuck in an endless loop with the Claude for Startups application, or is their vetting process just completely broken?

​I’ve now tried to apply 5 times. On my first submission, I waited over 48 hours only to find out the system essentially silent-rejected or reset the form with zero explanation, no email, and no error message. The exact same thing happened on every subsequent attempt: submit everything, wait, and get bounced straight back to an empty application page.

​What makes this genuinely infuriating is scrolling through social media and seeing people openly brag about getting approved with fake business names, disposable domains, and literally zero legitimate infrastructure.

​Meanwhile:

​I run a legally registered, incorporated business with official government registration.

​Everything is legitimate: active domain (even for the email), verified founder profile, and real operations.

​Yet an automated filter or broken form logic just silently bins the application every single time.

​If an application is rejected, at least send a automated rejection email. Silently resetting the form and forcing legitimate applicants to guess whether it's a technical bug, a regional block, or an automated blacklist is terrible UX for a company building cutting-edge tech.

​Has anyone actually managed to get a manual review or reached someone on the startup team, or is this program just completely unmonitored at this point?

For those who currently work at Anthropic, can you elaborate on the Essay-writing and sharing culture that Anthropic has?

I'm a philosophy student specializing in ethics, with an interest in the intersection of AI and ethics; the culture of Essay writing and sharing interests me. What topics are mostly discussed, and what is everyone's writing level? I'm glad to hear that essay writing happens so regularly at one of the leading AI companies.

One of the interesting things about old games is just how small their code and binaries were.

Take Elite, my favorite game of all time. The whole thing fits into roughly 42 KB. And even some of that isn't really game code: there's copy protection, the screen buffer, and simple things like lookup tables used for fast calculations.

The result is that a complete Spectrum game can fit into Claude's context window.

I've been experimenting with the Claude coding agent, and it turns out that:

- Claude can directly read and understand compiled machine code for old computers.

- It is possible to make a very precise port of an old ZX Spectrum 48K game, even something as complex as Elite, to a modern platform.

- You can untangle the original highly optimized game logic and study long-forgotten secrets and outstanding bugs.

- With some guidance, you can even *improve* the original game and bring it closer to modern gaming standards.

Take Elite. I managed to port it to Java, move it to a modern 60 FPS engine, improve the controls and save system, and fix a number of original bugs.

If you want to dive into a modernized classic, you can play my version of Elite online:

https://scf37.me/tools/games/elite

Because it's all a grift! The current business model ai has is not sustainable. Ai is not perfect and no body is paying $100, $200, and $500 a month for something that still makes mistakes, you can't get any types of refunds or credits, usage is manipulated by the frontier companies and you have to be a well scoped word savant to also get "ai" to do complex tasks!

I keep telling you all this is all me big bubble that's 65% part grift.

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