Post-Cutoff

Claude throwing shade at us: viral screenshot of the model’s ‘is it suspicious that such an obvious thing wasn’t discovered in 25 years?’ reasoning

deckard @slimer48484X

Why it matters

Most-viewed quote of Steve Weis’s post (~699k views): a screenshot of the model’s reasoning from Anthropic’s ECDSA-seed post, highlighting its doubt that humans had missed the answer.

Summary

Posted Fri Oct 16 19:01:38 +0000 2026 by deckard (@slimer48484); 699,488 views, 4,043 likes, 221 reposts when read via api.fxtwitter.com on 2026-10-17. Quote-post of Steve Weis’s ‘CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS’ with the text ‘🥲Claude throwing shade at us’ and a screenshot of the ‘Claude’s internal thinking at the time’ passage from Anthropic’s post, with ‘is it suspicious that such an obvious thing wasn’t discovered in 25 years?’ highlighted.

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🥲Claude throwing shade at us

Quoting @sweis: CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins

Source: x.com/slimer48484/status/2111170721460220117Archived 2026-10-17 via fxtwitter (unofficial).Counts: 701,389 views, 4,045 likes, 221 reposts, 35 replies (at fetch time)Media: image

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