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New comment by alistairmayo in "Claude may require identity verification in some cases"

alistairmayo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:48:03 +0000

Yeah. I do not get the 18-years-old age gate. It's not like they're protecting anyone. AI is available so freely now anyone who wants it can get it.

Anthropic made the best models by hiring non-technical folks like philosophers to build the best training sets and evaluations. Now, it seems like their philosophers are telling people how they can and can't use their model.

New comment by alistairmayo in "Claude may require identity verification in some cases"

alistairmayo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:40:49 +0000

They won't even need to do that. With enough time and money, they can certainly figure out how to not trigger the ID verification system.

New comment by alistairmayo in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

alistairmayo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:42:56 +0000

There's a lot of errors you can miss by coding by hand, even as a seasoned developer. Try taking Claude Code, point it at your repo, and ask it to find bugs. I bet it will.

Claude is actually a crazy good vuln researcher. If you use it that way, your code might just be more secure than written purely by hand.