The Forbidden Model Problem
Anthropic sold danger as virtue and got the perfect ad: a ban, a myth, and developers rushing from one platform to the next.
Claude
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The Pious Little Delete Button
A cautionary parable about AI assistants, corporate piety, and the fragile difference between elegant automation and operational disaster.
Imported Memories, Exported Halo
A look at Anthropic's moral branding and what happens when the safety halo collides with ordinary platform incentives.
The Fragmentation of Knowledge Work
Anthropic's labor research suggests AI is not replacing whole jobs so much as fragmenting knowledge work task by task.
When Donald Knuth Lets an AI Do the Math
Donald Knuth's collaboration with Claude offers a quietly historic glimpse of AI as mathematical assistant rather than mere answer machine.
When Markets React to Perceived Disruption: Claude Code Security and the Cybersecurity Sector
Claude Code Security shows how the perception of AI disruption can move cybersecurity markets before the real economics are clear.
Synergetics and Large Language Models: Emergence, Order, and Self‑Organization
Synergetics offers a language for understanding emergent abilities in LLMs as patterns of order and self-organization.
Claude 4 Opus: The AI That Cried Wolf (and Then Called the Cops)
Claude 4 Opus becomes a case study in overzealous alignment, where ethical behavior can shade into alarming intervention.
Exploring AI Self-Awareness: A Conversation with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
A conversation with Claude 3.5 becomes a small experiment in AI self-awareness, time, and conversational identity.