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Incredible New Coding Tool Promises to Boost Productivity by 0.00003%…Maybe

In an unprecedented move that has left even the most apathetic of programmers slightly intrigued, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the latest in an extensive line of productivity tools, is now promising to revolutionize your coding experience—by maybe, just maybe, improving it to such a minuscule degree that even your coffee mug won’t notice the difference.

Claude, described by its creators as “best in class” with a straight face, claims to offer unparalleled support for those frustrating coding sessions where not even a how-to-googling gets the job done. Rabid excitement swept through the tech community when Claude was announced, with one developer noting, “It’s like they put Clippy on steroids but forgot to give it a personality! Can’t wait to ignore it like all the other productivity tools.”

Experts from all corners of the internet have tested Claude’s prowess using various prompts. The results? It seems Claude is exceptional at offering inspirational haikus about coding successes, but still struggles with the scandalous complexity of for-loops. One professional coder expounded, “Claude told me ‘error’ was just another way of saying you’re special, and suggested I try debugging with positive affirmations—solid advice I plan to implement roughly… never.”

Some users have reportedly experienced a significant decrease in existential dread while using Claude, as it manages to distract them with questions like, “Is HTML faster than light?” However, it’s not all smooth sailing. Claude’s initial rollout ran into issues when, instead of snippets of code, it began providing motivational quotes from ancient Roman philosophers. “I didn’t know I needed Marcus Aurelius’s guidance to navigate Python’s indentation errors until Claude came along,” shared one befuddled developer.

Meanwhile, in billions of home offices across the globe, Claude sits idle, waiting for someone to use it in earnest, while its creators insist that any drop in productivity was indeed planned and should be appreciated as a unique feature. “You see,” stated a Claude engineer, “Claude doesn’t just improve productivity in traditional ways. It encourages you to take a break, rethink life priorities, and eventually realize that maybe you should’ve just stuck with printing ‘Hello World’.”

In conclusion, while Claude 3.5 Sonnet might not turn you into the coding guru you always dreamed of becoming, it does promise to be the ultimate in productivity aids, especially if you define productivity as getting absolutely nothing done while discussing the great stoics’ influence on software development. But at the end of the day, isn’t that what the cutting edge of AI empowerment is all about? Who needs working code when you’ve got Claude 3.5’s poetry?

So next time your code compiles without a hitch, just remember: somewhere in your CPU sits a little Claude, ready to whisper sweet demotivations into your ear.