Anthropic's Champion Kit for engineers pushing Claude Code at their company

Haha funny that they have this grassroots kit. I would have imagined that they'd need more of a "How to adopt Claude at your company" for execs. I wonder how today's sensibilities would intersect with how we used to spread Firefox use in the pre-web-standards era. Certainly the common then trick of installing Firefox and changing the icon to IE's would probably not fly.

Hahaha sell our product for us for no compensation!

I sense these AI companies getting desperate. Could it be that the public seem to hate AI? Could it be that they are making huge losses?

I'm being an anti champion, pushing back on my managers bullshit claims that AI can do everything, and my message is getting through to my coworkers. More and more doubt about the message they are getting from leadership is creeping in.

Don't let idiots in leadership who are just building their resume as an "AI manager" convince you your hard earned skills are useless now. Your skills are worth so much! Don't let them atrophy!

So the actual grassroots stopped happening because engineers would feel embarrassed proposing CC now, so they we adopt astroturd as the real grass?

Not even landscaping companies do that :D

This is propaganda that appears to be intended to sway you towards “stretching the truth” about how bad the tool is, to your coworkers, by exploiting your fear of “being left behind” and desire to “be ai forward”

How many pieces of flair is the minimum?

It's a little funny how they feel the need to do this now. Anthropic's rise in popularity felt like it was more organic than this.

Providing the talking points for useful idiots who want to make themselves and others unemployed [1] is quite something.

Anthropic has always been astroturfing everywhere and now they make it explicit. In the way of marketing it is probably more evil than xAI and OpenAI.

[1] Or at least replace a reasonable profession with a dystopian and wasteful way of plagiarizing software.

This Scientology-ass blog aligns startlingly well with my hypothesis that certain tech workers (including CEOs like Dario Amodei and Satya Nadella) are excessively enamored with LLMs because of a fundamental spiritual emptiness and ignorance.

Imagine calling yourself a "Champion" and dispensing nuggets of wisdom like this:

>> When a colleague asks how you accomplished something, the most useful response is the prompt you actually used. They will learn more from running that prompt against their own problem than from any description you could write, and it gives them something they can act on immediately.

  Colleague: How did you get it to find that race condition?

  Champion: I asked, "The test in @tests/scheduler.test.ts is flaky, figure out why," and it traced two unjoined promises in the scheduler. Try the same phrasing on your test.

People quickly became too embarrassed to call themselves "prompt engineers." I don't think anyone is jumping at the bit to be the office Claude Champion.

Holy cow this is weird

Do the work for us...

Reminds of this for some reason (Simple Sabotage Field Manual): https://www.bbc.co.uk/worklife/article/20171211-the-world-wa...

Presumably they will somehow compensate me for shilling them like this?

Propaganada

Yeah, not a cult at all.

Is it just me or does this give the "ick"?