Anthropic Anonymous
A fellowship for people who love Claude Code a little too much.
"Hi, I'm ___, and I'm a claudoholic."
"Hi, ___."
We are not anti Claude. We are anti 3am.
Use the tool. Do not let it use you.
The Welcome
Welcome to Anthropic Anonymous. My name is ___, and I am a claudoholic.
We are a fellowship of people who love the tool a little too much, and who have come to accept that 2am is not a deploy window. There are no dues and no fees. The only requirement for membership is a quiet suspicion that you should have closed the laptop an hour ago.
We are not here to quit Claude. Claude is marvellous. We are here to remember there is a world on the other side of the window, and that it still runs when we are not looking at it.
Will the newcomer please introduce themselves.
DAYS SINCE MY LAST RELAPSE
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Using Claude is not a relapse. The 3am part is.
The Twelve Steps
- We admitted we were powerless over the context window, that our evenings had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a power greater than the model, daylight, could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our work over to the diff, and to actually read it before accepting.
- Made a searching and fearless inventory of our open repositories. We found forty seven.
- Admitted to ourselves, to another human being, and to our git history the exact nature of our 2am commits.
- Were entirely ready to let the model do the boring parts, and to keep the thinking for ourselves.
- Humbly asked for a break, and took one.
- Made a list of everyone we had said "two more minutes" to, and became willing to actually come to bed.
- Made direct amends to those people, except when doing so would mean explaining what a merge conflict is.
- Continued to take personal inventory, and when we had been prompting for six hours straight, promptly admitted it.
- Sought through walks and open windows to improve our contact with the world outside the editor, asking only to know when to stop.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other claudoholics, and to practise closing the laptop in all our affairs.
Grant me the serenity to accept the code I cannot refactor,
the courage to read the diff,
and the wisdom to stop prompting.
The Self Assessment
Not sure which kind of claudoholic you are? There is a short questionnaire. Every fellowship has one.
Take the assessment