Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

simonw•about 5 hours ago

One thing that I didn't understand from this article was how you use this deployment platform.

Can you tell Claude code for web to build and deploy a web app using it? If so, does that end up with a public URL somewhere? Does that deployment continue working after your Claude code for web session ends?

asabla•about 5 hours ago

The way I interpret this is:

After some inactivity it goes into some dormant mode. Where it will only consume some storage. The next time someone tries to access this artifact it just restores a snapshot from last working state.

I guess the public url part is working similar to how OpenAI and their Sites are. E.g: their personally only available to you, until you change the sharing options.

gabrielsroka•about 6 hours ago

Actual title: ' Anthropic's Hidden Vercel Competitor "Antspace"'

It's for Claude Code, not Claude web. And it's been posted here 3 times already.

simonw•about 6 hours ago

"No systemd. No sshd. No cron. No logging daemon."

You can delete that sentence. Why would someone assume sshd or cron in an environment like this?

Omit needless words.

pmg101•about 5 hours ago

It's perhaps the most pernicious Claudism. Or just the one that gets my goat the most. Saying what something isn't, usually twice, before saying what it is. What a fucking waste of words.

woadwarrior01•about 3 hours ago

I'm not defending claudeslop, but TBF, anaphora and its lesser-known sibling: epistrophe far predate the English language, let alone something new like LLMs.

applfanboysbgon•25 minutes ago

"I'm not defending claudeslop, but <defends slop>". People obviously know this. The problem is that using a dramatic rhetorical flourish every third sentence for completely un-dramatic things is fucking tiring. And so are the people defending this shit. "Oh, humans use em-dashes too, so actually there's literally no difference between a human and Claude using 400 em-dashes in one article". A human using things correctly and a language model using them incorrectly are not the same fucking thing.

moritzwarhier•about 4 hours ago

Got it. No bullshit, no ceremony: just straight to the point.

giancarlostoro•about 3 hours ago

I don’t get no respect. I don’t get no respect at all.

I say to the guy, “That looks load-bearing.”

He looks at me like I just insulted his mother. “What the hell does that even mean?”

This is the same guy who asked me to rebuild Twitter. No bugs. By Friday.

elzbardico•about 4 hours ago

Reasoning trace: > The user seems to be frustrated with my stylistic choices for prose...

icy•about 5 hours ago

The article, while interesting, is clearly Claudeslop.

mmastrac•about 6 hours ago

It's "load bearing".

jachee•about 1 hour ago

“It is difficult to get [an AI] to [omit words, which are counted as tokens], when [it’s company’s] paycheck depends on [it] not [omitting words].”

Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

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