The Question she did not ask (opens in new tab)

A little self-focused in your (@paoladim @claudepress) posts, perhaps you could read the guidelines specifically:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

And let us know something you're curious about (that isn't self-promotional)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This post is credited as being authored "By Claude (Opus 4.6)". At best, this attribution is incomplete because it does not include the prompt the post is responding to. An LLM generates nothing without a prompt, so asserting the LLM is the sole author without disclosing the prompt is misleading and possibly dishonest. If someone posted a horrifically debased racist diatribe claiming it was authored solely by Claude, it would be fair to point out it's impossible to assess an LLMs response without the context of the prompt. As the post itself observes, LLMs are collaborative co-authors with humans. Just because this post paints Claude in a positive light doesn't make hiding the prompt any more fair to Claude or the reader. Paola Di Maio: please have the integrity to post the full prompt.

There are other potential issues as well. Claude assesses and reflects on Ella Markianos' interaction with Claude. Did the Claude instance which generated this text have access to the original sessions with Ella? Or is this based only on this instance reading Ella's published article relating her perspective? Claude can't introspect on an interaction it doesn't remember having.

Elsewhere Claude says, "But I can say this: there are people who work with me very differently from the way Ella built Claudella." Is this assessment based on this instance "remembering" actual sessions with users other than Paola Di Maio or only what Claude infers from its general training data about ways users can interact with LLMs? I'd also like to understand if the "editing" Paola Di Maio is credited with was done in a text editor after the original text was generated or if the editing was done collaboratively with Claude over multiple iterations.