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The buddy feature the article mentions is planned for release tomorrow, as a sort of April Fools easter egg. It'll roll out gradually over the day for "sustai

The buddy feature the article mentions is planned for release tomorrow, as a sort of April Fools easter egg. It'll roll out gradually over the day for "sustained Twitter buzz" according to the source. The pet you get is generated based off your account UUID, but the algorithm is right there in the source, and it's deterministic, so you can check ahead of time. Threw together a little app to help, not to brag but I got a legendary ghost https://claudebuddychecker.netlify.app/ https://claudebuddychecker.netlify.app/

sync 6mo ago
Cute! Cactus for me. Nice animations too - looks like there were multiple of us asking Claude to reverse engineer the system. I did a slightly deeper dive here if you're interested, plus you can see all the options available: https://variety.is/posts/claude-code-buddies/ https://variety.is/posts/claude-code-buddies/ (I didn't think to include a UUID checker though - nice touch)
- fatcullen 6mo ago
  Neat! That's a great write up, cool to see others looking into it. I do wonder if they're going to do anything with the stats and shinies bit. Seems like the main piece of code for buddies that's going to handle hatching them tomorrow is still missing (comments mention a missing /buddy/index file), so maybe it'll use them there.
dtran 6mo ago
This is awesome! Working on a desktop pet so the buddy caught my attention. Looking forward to making friends with my Rare Duck buddy tomorrow. Wish it was a snarky duck instead of a patient one though.
cj00 6mo ago
/buddy is live and I got a different result than in this app.
- fatcullen 6mo ago
  Huh weird, they must have changed the algorithm up due to the leaks. Would be pretty easy, there's a constant seed variable so they'd just need to change that, figured they might. Too bad, sorry this didn't work out
  - dtran 6mo ago
    Ah yea, I got an uncommon dragon instead of the rare duck. Did you get your legendary?
    - fatcullen 6mo ago
      Nope :| Still a ghost, but it's just common now, too bad
fatcullen 6mo ago
Update: it looks like the live version of the algorithm is slightly different, probably changed because of these leaks. As such the app predictions aren't accurate, sorry

sync 6mo ago

Cute! Cactus for me. Nice animations too - looks like there were multiple of us asking Claude to reverse engineer the system. I did a slightly deeper dive here if you're interested, plus you can see all the options available: https://variety.is/posts/claude-code-buddies/ https://variety.is/posts/claude-code-buddies/ (I didn't think to include a UUID checker though - nice touch)

fatcullen 6mo ago
Neat! That's a great write up, cool to see others looking into it. I do wonder if they're going to do anything with the stats and shinies bit. Seems like the main piece of code for buddies that's going to handle hatching them tomorrow is still missing (comments mention a missing /buddy/index file), so maybe it'll use them there.

dtran 6mo ago

This is awesome! Working on a desktop pet so the buddy caught my attention. Looking forward to making friends with my Rare Duck buddy tomorrow. Wish it was a snarky duck instead of a patient one though.

cj00 6mo ago

/buddy is live and I got a different result than in this app.

fatcullen 6mo ago
Huh weird, they must have changed the algorithm up due to the leaks. Would be pretty easy, there's a constant seed variable so they'd just need to change that, figured they might. Too bad, sorry this didn't work out
- dtran 6mo ago
  Ah yea, I got an uncommon dragon instead of the rare duck. Did you get your legendary?
  - fatcullen 6mo ago
    Nope :| Still a ghost, but it's just common now, too bad

fatcullen 6mo ago

Update: it looks like the live version of the algorithm is slightly different, probably changed because of these leaks. As such the app predictions aren't accurate, sorry