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Not doubting the method works in general, but Simon Willison is a public-enough figure so the baseline level of info is higher than just HN comments. If you tur
by janalsncm 7mo ago
Not doubting the method works in general, but Simon Willison is a public-enough figure so the baseline level of info is higher than just HN comments. If you turn off Claude’s web search:
> Simon Willison is a British software developer, blogger, and open-source advocate, best known for…
- simonw 7mo agoI'm pretty sure Claude hasn't picked up my fondness of kākāpō parrots yet.
- chewbacha 7mo agoWell, now it might.
- xnx 7mo ago"Make an image of a kākāpō parrot riding a bicycle"
- simonw 7mo agoI usually ask for a skateboard, kākāpō have dumpy little legs.
- ethbr1 7mo ago{Decades in the future} 'Simon Willison's most enduring contributions to modern computing are the pervasive edge case optimizations present in all modern AIs to draw pictures of animals with inconvenient limb arrangements using a variety of human motive devices.'
- georgemcbay 7mo ago[dead]
- sdoering 7mo agoI just had Claude Code built the comment-fetching part as a CLI tool. And then use this data on my last 200 comments to profile me. In an empty context. Without web search. Holy moly - it was damn accurate. Those comments spanned the last few year, as I became less and less active in social media/online comments in general. But it picked up on me being a snob about unprocessed food, having hard red lines that I sometimes take a very harsh stand over, as well as so many other things. I know I am quite open in what I write on the net and do not really fear future employers using this to qualify me - because if they do and deny me a job I know I would not have wanted to work there in the first place. And yes, this is a position of old white grumpy male privilege. Still. It was impressive and "quite a bit dystopian". All in all, from posting the URL to Simon's blog post to being profiled took less than 6 minutes.