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# 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 (@slimer48484), X, 2026-10-16.
Source: https://x.com/slimer48484/status/2111170721460220117

## 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.

## Archived text

> 🥲Claude throwing shade at us
> 
> > Quoting @sweis: CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS
> > https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins

Archived 2026-10-17 via fxtwitter (unofficial).
Counts: 701,389 views, 4,045 likes, 221 reposts, 35 replies (at fetch time)
Media: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HUxiiUDW4AEXAJU.jpg?name=orig

## Cited in

- 2026-10-16: [Claude explains where the NIST P-256 curve seeds came from](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-16-claude-recovers-nist-ecdsa-curve-seeds/)