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Assertion Contradicted
Cherny: Anthropic Can No Longer Demonstrate Prompt Injection on Opus 5
“So essentially, if you combine a well-aligned model, so this is, like, essentially three years of research into alignment, With a prompt injection classifier, which we run for all traffic, and what this is doing is it's based on Chrysola's mechanistic interpre…”
Boris Cherny Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 2:46 Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
Assertion Contradicted
Ries: FTX bankruptcy's Anthropic stake exceeds the entire fraud value
“Apparently the stake that the bankruptcy has of those shares is worth more than the whole, than all of the entire fraud by a lot.”
Eric Ries May 22, 2026 ▶ 47:11 How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot · Y Combinator
Assertion Contradicted
Mercury data shows 70 percent of startups choose Claude
“There was some stuff from Mercury that like, 70% of startups are, you know, choosing quad as their model of choice.”
Boris Cherny Feb 17, 2026 ▶ 47:10 Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
Assertion Contradicted
Joseph: Original scaling laws paper spanned 11 orders of magnitude
“Like, you know, the scaling, I think the original scaling laws paper had, like, 11 orders of magnitude, and there was, like, this intense debate on whether it would continue for, like, another point.”
Nick Joseph Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 13:25 Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI · Y Combinator
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