Agreed! And shout-out to the people at CourtListener (the site hosting this PDF), who make millions of US court documents freely available to the public.

Serious question: Did you use AI to write this or do you just sound like an LLM after having used them so much?

I’m getting pretty decent at spotting LLM text. This doesn’t contain the obvious tells at least.

The fact this needs to exist seems like a UX red flag.

Reminds me of Vercel's Rauch talking about his aggressive 'any UX mistake is our fault, never the user's' model for evaluating UIX. (It is/was Guillermo who says that, right?)

This should be all of Information Technology’s take. Your computers get hacked - IT’s fault. Users complain about how hard your software is or that it breaks all the time - IT’s fault.

The fact users deal with almost everything being objectively not very good if not outright bad is a testament to people adapting to bad circumstances more than anything.

It's a CLI. CLIs have man pages and cheat sheets. That's not a UX failure, that's the format. The same argument would apply to git, ripgrep, or ffmpeg.

The actual complexity in Claude Code isn't the commands, it's figuring out a workflow that works for your codebase. CLAUDE.md files, hooks, MCP servers, custom skills. Once you have that set up the daily usage is just typing what you want done.

Similar to prompting hacks to produce better results. If the machine we built for taking dumb input that will transform it into an answer needs special structuring around the input then it's not doing a good job at taking dumb input.

it doesn't need to exist, its all in claudes help, and easily discoverable.

> Ctrl-F "help"

> Ctrl-F "h"

> 0 results found

Interesting set of shortcuts and slash commands.

This. TUIs are not the correct paradigm for agentic operations. They are too constrained, and too linear.

You have a sad narrow point of view about what UX can be.

Enlighten me?

I recently left a large law firm where Word took upwards of 30 seconds to launch. To be fair, I think the issue was the many large and buggy plugins that came preinstalled on everyone's machines. But it still left me glowering at the Microsoft Word logo multiple times a day.

Adding this to my list of ~beautifully~ designed things to buy when I win the lottery.

It's not clear what exactly the "legal action" is based on this github link. My pure speculation is Anthropic's lawyers have come up with a liability story boiling down to OpenCode helping end users violate the Anthropic ToS (i.e. tortious interference with contract).

A vaguely threatening letter is usually all it takes

Doesn't even need to be threatening, a notice of "this thing you're doing is in violation of our terms of service" should be enough... although I suppose that can be construed as threatening already.

I haven't used OpenCode but if not using Claude is existential then why back down? Set up limited liability somehow and just let it play out.

Sometimes, it's just not worth the effort. Seriously would you rather:

A) Get invovled in a lengthy back and forth, potential legal proceedings with a billion dollar company.

or

B) Listen to the message being sent, be pragmatic, and then get on with building things.

Depends if it's existential, like I said. If my whole company depends on X and replacing it is intractable, there's not much other choice. Having looked at the landing page though, seems like they can just go with other models and it will (largely) be fine, yes.

Wow… that’s one of the most dystopian things I’ve seen in a while.

right???? especially that "never pay a human again" at the end... Palantir is a sweetheart on Doublespeed backdrop

I recently turned my unused Google Pixel 8 into a server for my personal site and various side projects. It's super satisfying to spin things up in a couple hours, point a cloudflare tunnel at it, and share it with the world.

Do you have a write up of the software you used to do this?

Was it just using Android apps or did you flash GrapheneOS or PostmarketOS onto it first?

Is it permanently plugged into power (risking spicy pillow scenarios)?

Huh, it's working for me (on Firefox).

The plaintiff is represented by one of the largest law firms in the world, Sidley Austin. Which is to say: they have legal firepower.

Nippon is a company that can afford that.

I'm a bit sus that they can bring OpenAI into this given this is just one woman using ChatGPT to generate terrible legal submissions. The ToS will be important here, but one can liken this to trying to bring the car manufacturer into a lawsuit over a car crash.

As far as I'm aware, OpenAI is not selling any legal products.

The largest lawfirms are happy to take on cases like this even if they don’t expect a win. The number of billable hours it will generate for them is very high.

Who will win?

An army of lawyers, or one dice-rolly boi?