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Re:Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" by booty on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:11AM (#49979693)
Sans context, I really like the Anthropic and Claude's faux-academic, minimal-ish, intellectual-ish branding.

(Especially the way it looked ~12 months ago -- it's gotten more cluttered since then. Perhaps unavoidably, as the breadth of their offerings has grown)

But over time it's begun to feel like unsettling cognitive dissonance as their ambitions grow and the stuff to worry about has piled up.

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Re:Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" by fodkodrasz on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:02PM (#49980469)
> faux-academic, minimal-ish, intellectual-ish branding

By this you sourely don't mean the messages shown in Claude Code, where Pi would show "Working..."

Academic style: Cooking... Sautéeing... Julienning... and similar annoying faux-brogrammer moody status messages.

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Re:Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" by nine_k on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:26PM (#49980742)
It's straight from The Sims [1], which seems quite appropriate :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims

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Re:Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" by Y_Y on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:47PM (#49981011)
You didn't have to look at "reticulating splines" all day long though. Anyway that stuff came from Sim City.
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