P.S. @bcherny curious which of these loops the Claude Code team designed intentionally vs which emerged from good defaults. The line between designed virality and lucky virality is the interesting one.
Claude Code did not go viral because of Opus 4.7.
The model made the output good. It is not what made millions of engineers babysit their terminals at 2am.
Seven behavioral loops did. Here they are.
9/ If you're shipping AI:
Stop benchmarking your model. Start mapping your loops.
Where is the variable reward? Where is the visible progress? Where does the user evangelize you without being asked?
That's the actual product.
Full essay: https://t.co/OWqdSGuN2n
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