I work with developers all the time. It's also my background. As a very general rule; don't go to programmers when you want solid information about human (or human-like) interaction.
Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · yesterdayAnthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
