Data Verification

A software developer sits back from his desk with his eyes closed and his hand pressed against the bridge of his nose, a monitor full of code in front of him.

The AI Reset

Anthropic started watermarking Claude's text and people reacted like someone had announced the end of AI. I think they are asking the wrong question. The better one is what we became while AI was becoming normal.

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A Stranger’s Blog Post Told Me I Was 900 Places Wrong

The competition closed and I pulled my final rank. The number was internally consistent, completely plausible, and wrong by nine hundred places. Here is the two-word API difference that caused it and how a competitor's blog post caught it.

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