Claude.ai, satirical prompt series ('check out these musings')
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check out these musings --- is a lot like a ship in a bottle. every piece was placed by hand through a narrow opening, and once it's up, nobody can quite say how the whole thing got in there. reviewers see the finished vessel. maintainers know only the fragment they pushed through the neck last tuesday. no one holds the full assembly in their head. the bug is in the rigging, not the hull. the hull was cast in a single piece and it's fine. every string that pulls a mast upright is a decision someone made at 2am with a deadline, and any one of them could be tied to the wrong pin. and the bottle is sealed. you can shake it and watch what moves. anyway i'm going to keep shaking it until something falls over
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Same satirical series: a 'ship in a bottle' metaphor for large, unauditable codebases/models, ending with the narrator resolving to keep shaking it until something breaks.