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Re:So you want to serialize some DER? by PeeMcGee on Monday June 30, 2025 @11:17AM (#44424387)
The post title is misleading and the content reads more like a guerilla advertisement for claude. TL;DR: author works for Anthropic, and used claude to implement an optimization for LLVM.
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Re:So you want to serialize some DER? by quentinp on Monday June 30, 2025 @11:17PM (#44430253)
He’s also well respected in the Python community for maintaining the cryptography package, partially written in Rust. This is just a random blog post, not an ad.
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Re:So you want to serialize some DER? by lmm on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @04:31AM (#44431823)
Maybe. But the fact they work for Anthropic is very relevant and changes my impression of the post quite a lot.
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Re:So you want to serialize some DER? by __alexs on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @05:39AM (#44432167)
FWIW Having worked a lot with Alex on cryptography he seems almost entirely incapable of doing something that I would normally consider an advert.

Sometimes people have good experiences with tools and like to share them.

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Re:So you want to serialize some DER? by brabel on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @06:14AM (#44432356)
The author has added a note in the beginning of the post now making it clear that he works for Anthropic, which may explain the fixation on Claude Code!
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