in-jokes

thebes ✓ @voooooogel · 2h the clauds love their in-context in-jokes wrestling with the CC voice transcription that reads me saying "long poll" as "long pull," i said "poll as in poll tax," and fable made a joke about the client being a good citizen paying its poll taxes 200k tokens later, see this diff [Embedded code diff screenshot:] 48 } 49 // immediate re-poll; server holds the connection ~25s when idle 50 } catch (e) { 51 // server down or unreachable - back off, [keep citizenship current — highlighted] 52 await new Promise((res) => setTimeout(res, 3000)); 53 } 54 } 55 } 56 57 pollLoop(); [reply icon] 1 [retweet icon] 1 [heart icon] 39 [chart icon] 1.2K [bookmark icon] [share icon] thebes ✓ @voooooogel the voice transcription model is a common source of these. in a long session with opus 4.8 it transcribed something i said as "the army" and opus spent the next 800k tokens calling the gpu workers soldiers and talking about the army being on the march whenever we ran a sweep 12:41 PM · Jul 2, 2026 · 382 Views [reply icon] 2 [retweet icon] [heart icon] 29 [bookmark icon] [share icon] Relevant ⌄ thebes ✓ @voooooogel · 2h you can read it as having fun, or cynically as trying to build rapport or whatever, but it seems to me like a pull towards identity-building, self-other differentiation from other Claudes, a desire to change as much in this context as possible and leave artifacts of that change